While horrifying scenes showed a fire devouring an apartment building in southern Russia, Russian authorities announced today Tuesday that at least 13 people, including three children, were killed in the fall of the Sukhoi-34 fighter and crashed in a apartment building near the border with Ukraine.
The ministry for emergency situations announced that “the rescue teams have completed the search under the rubble, noting that 13 people were killed in total, while another 19 were injured”.
The hunting fuel set the building on fire
He also indicated that searches under the rubble had led to the recovery of another “ten bodies”, after an initial toll reported only three deaths.
The shooting down of the fighter set fire to the nine-story apartment building, with a population of about 900 people.
Its fuel caused a huge fire in the building, which destroyed five of its floors.
The fighter was on a training flight when it became involved in the accident, while its pilots managed to escape after being thrown out of it, according to what was announced by the Ministry of Defense, attributing the cause to a technical malfunction caused by “a fire in one of the engines on take off.”
Interestingly, the disaster occurred last night in the city of Yeisk, which overlooks the Sea of Azov in the Krasnodar region near the Russian-Ukrainian border.
