Plane crashes into house in Kazakhstan killing 17
At least 17 people died Friday when a passenger plane
carrying 100 people crashed into a house shortly after takeoff from Kazakhstan's
largest city, authorities said.
The Bek Air plane "fell off the radar" minutes after it took off from Almaty airport at 7.05 am (01:05 GMT) on its way to the capital, Nur-Sultan, the airport authority said in a statement.
"There are 14 dead at the (crash) site," the city government said in a statement sent from its Telegram messenger app.
It added that a further 17 patients were being treated in hospital in a "serious condition", including at least eight children.
A video, released by the Central Asian country's emergencies committee, showed the front of the plane crushed into a house that was partially collapsed, as rescue crews worked to pull people from the wreckage.
Rescue workers could be seen reaching into the windows of the shattered cock pit, as scores of emergency staff gathered at the site.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev pledged to provide families of the victims with compensation and tweeted that those responsible "will be severely punished in accordance with the law."
