A Russian military transport plane crashed in Syria on March 6, killing all 32 people on board, Russian news agencies quoted the Russian Defence Ministry as saying, an incident that sharply raises the death toll from the Kremlin's Syria operation.
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Candles, flowers, a piece of bread and a glass
of vodka are placed in memory of passengers and crew members of Russian
military plane, which crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria, at the
Russian embassy in Minsk, Belarus in December, 2016. (Photo:Reuters)
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Russian
President Vladimir Putin ordered "a significant part" of
Moscow's military
contingent there to start withdrawing in December, declaring their work
largely done.But casualties continue to mount.
The
defence ministry was cited as saying that the plane, an An-26, crashed at
Russia's Hmeymim air base in
Latakia
Province and that initial information suggested the crash may have been caused by a
technical fault.
Twenty-six
passengers and six crew members were on board, and all were killed in the
crash, the news agencies quoted the ministry as saying.
In
December 2016, a plane carrying a Russian military orchestra to
Syria crashed in the
Black
Sea, killing all 92 people on board. |
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Source: NDO
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