08/09/2011 11:00
42 people found dead at Yak-42 crash site
Another two people were found dead at the crash site of an airplane Yak-42 in the Yaroslavl Region, a source in the information department in the Ministry of Emergency Situations told ITAR-TASS on Thursday.
“Forty-two people were found dead,” the source said.
The emergency works at the crash site continue. The rescuers will have to find one more dead person.
The Yak-42 airplane, which was carrying the ice hockey team Lokomotiv to Minsk, crashed two kilometers away from the airport falling into three parts, two of which dropped in a Volga tributary on Wednesday. The airplane caught fire in the crash. Only two people survived from 45 people onboard the airplane.