“Where is the ambulance?” a woman can be heard saying on a video from the scene circulated by Kazakh media. “People are asking for an ambulance and it’s not arriving.”Almaty, in southeastern Kazakhstan near the mountainous border with Kyrgyzstan, is the Central Asian country’s biggest city. Kazakh authorities have halted flights of the Dutch-made Fokker 100, news agencies reported, citing the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development. Bek Air, which bills itself as Kazakhstan’s first low-cost airline, operates seven Fokker 100 jets and flies to 12 Kazakh destinations as well as Moscow and St. Petersburg. The airline did not immediately comment after the crash, and its Twitter and Facebook accounts appeared to have been taken offline.

Source: International New York Times December 27, 2019 03:49 UTC