At least seven parachutists were killed and over a dozen injured after a twin-engine L-410 aircraft crashed in a forest in Russia’s Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia, Russian media reported on Saturday.
It said the plane crashed into a nearby forest. It cited local prosecutor office as saying the crew had sent a distress signal about an engine failure, Xinhua reported.
A spokesman at a Siberian branch of Russian civil aviation agency Rosaviatsia told that a search and rescue operation was under way, declining to provide details.
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