Kazakhstan's border service chief among air crash victims - The Voice of Russia

Rescue teams are working at the scene. An investigation has been launched.

Military plane crashes in Kazakhstan, 27 people killed

A military transport plane crashed in southern Kazakhstan on Tuesday, killing 27 people on board, a Kazakh security source said.

Kazakh TV channel KTK said the plane had disappeared from the radar at about 1900 local time (1300 GMT) as it was making a descent near the city of Shymkent, the capital of the South Kazakhstan Region. It said the plane belonged to the KNB security service.

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