- MOSCOW (AFP) -- One Russian
airliner has crashed in southern Russia and another in the centre of the
country, news agencies reported.
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- A Tu-134 aircraft with 34 passengers and eight crew on
board was en route to Russia's southern city of Volgograd when it disappeared
off radar screens late Tuesday, emergency officials said as quoted by the
ITAR-TASS news agency.
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- It was later found near the village of Buchalki in Tula
region some 180 kilometers (108 miles) south of Moscow, officials said.
The fate of passengers and crew was unclear.
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- In a separate case, a Tu-154 airplane with 44 people
on board crashed near the southern city of Rostov-on-Don while on the way
to the Black Sea resort of Sochi, officials said.
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