Two Russian citizens they were passengers of one chartered flight to Moscow who disappeared while flying over Afghanistan, Russia’s state news agency TASS reported, citing a source “in the operations services”.

A list of the names of all those on board the aircraft released by the news outlet SHOT also shows that the crew were also Russian nationals.

Russia’s civil aviation agency said today that a Russian-registered plane carrying six people reportedly disappeared from radar screens while flying over Afghanistan overnight, after local Afghan police said they had received reports of a crash. of an aircraft.

The Russian news agency RIA reported that the plane was on a medical evacuation flight from Thailand to Moscow.

Russian investigators said they had launched a criminal investigation to determine whether there had been any breach of security regulations.

Earlier, police in northern Afghanistan received information about a plane crash in Badakhshan province, according to the provincial police spokesman, cited by Reuters.

He said, however, that there were no confirmed details about the type of aircraft, the cause of the crash or casualties.

“A plane has crashed, but the location has not been specified,” provincial official Zabihullah Amiri told AFP.

“We were informed by the villagers,” explained the official of this province, which is located on the border with Tajikistan, China and Pakistan.

The accident occurred in a mountainous area, with difficult access, of this province crossed by the Hindu Kush massif, with peaks exceeding 7,000 meters.

The crash site “is about an eight-hour drive” from the provincial capital Faizabad, Amiri said.

“We sent a team on the spot, but it hasn’t arrived,” he added, “we don’t have any details.”

The official expressed hope to have information from this group “in two to three hours.”

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