At least 13 people were killed when a Russian warplane crashed into an apartment building near the Ukrainian border

Posted in: 10/18/2022 – 07:22

Russia announced Tuesday that at least 13 people, including three children, were killed on Monday when a Russian Su-34 fighter plane crashed into an apartment building in the south of the country near the border. UkrainianHe said the search operations under the rubble are over.

In this context, Russian news agencies reported, citing the Ministry of Emergency Situations, that “the rescue teams completed the search under the rubble (…) In the end, 13 people were killed, including three children, and 19 others were injured. ” The ministry said the search operations under the rubble led to the recovery of “another ten bodies”, after an initial report stated that three people had died in the accident.

The shooting down of the fighter caused a fire in the nine-story apartment building, which has a population of about 900 people. The disaster occurred in the city of Yeisk, which is located on the Sea of ​​Azov in the Krasnodar region, near the border with Ukraine.

In turn, the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had notified the incident and ordered health ministers Mikhail Murashko and Alexander Korenkov to travel to Iesko.

The jet fuel caused a huge fire in the building, which destroyed five of its nine floors.

The fighter was involved in the accident during a training flight and its pilots managed to escape after being thrown out, according to the Ministry of Defense, which attributed the cause of the accident to a technical malfunction caused by “a fire in a engines at take-off. “

FRANCE 24 / AFP