Plane with 200 passengers crashes in Russia-Interfax

LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) A plane with 200 people on board crashed in Russia today, the Interfax news agency reported, but said no one had been killed.

The agency quoted the Russian Emergencies Ministry as saying that the Airbus A-310 passenger plane on a flight from Moscow to Irkutsk was carrying 192 passengers and eight crew members when it crashed in Irkutsk.

The agency said that the plane crashed during the final approach to Irkutsk, where it overran the runway, hit a concrete fence, crashed into a building and caught fire.

It said no one had died from the crash but that 40 people had been taken to a hospital.

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