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Russian jet carrying hockey team crashes, 36 dead

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Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry says a passenger jet carrying a local ice hockey team has crashed while taking off in western Russia, killing 36 people.

 

The ministry's regional branch said the Yak-42 plane crashed Wednesday after leaving an airport near the city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga River northeast of Moscow. It said at least one person has survived but is injured.

 

 

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