There are no survivors from a passenger plane that crashed on Sunday near Moscow, Russia’s transport minister has said. Maxim Sololov said that “judging by everything, no-one has survived this crash” after the An-148 regional jet went down a few minutes after take-off. News reports said 71 people – 65 passengers and six crew – were on board the plane heading for the city of Orsk, about 1,600km southeast of Moscow. Emergency services work at the location where a short-haul regional Antonov AN-148 plane crashed after taking off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, outside Moscow, Russia, on Sunday. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/ReutersInstead, Mr Abbas will meet Mr Putin in Moscow in the latter part of Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Source: The Irish Times February 11, 2018 12:56 UTC