A passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia has crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, the Central Asian country’s Ministry of Emergency Situations said in a statement.

Flight number J2-8243, an Embraer 190 aircraft with 62 passengers and five crew members on board, was forced to make an emergency landing about 3km (1.8 miles) from Aktau.

Twenty-eight people, including two children, survived the crash and were hospitalised, according to health officials. Russian news agency Interfax cited the ministry as saying that there may be more survivors and quoted medical workers at the scene as saying that four bodies have been recovered.

source :Al jazeera