[RT] The corpse count in the fighter jet crash in the southern Russian city of Yeysk has climbed to 14. Aleksey Kuznetsov, an aide to Russia's health minister, revealed on Tuesday morning that 13 people had died in the incident, while one more victim was subsequently confirmed.The plane fell from the sky on Monday evening after one of its engines caught fire during a training flight, the Defense Ministry said.
Both pilots safely ejected, but the aircraft crashed just outside a nine-story building and went
kaboom!.
Kuznetsov said that three children are among the victims, adding that 19 people were hospitalized.
The emergency services said 68 people were rescued from the rubble, and 360 were evacuated.
Death toll after a fire in a house in Yeysk increased to 15 people
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[RIA Novosti] The death toll due to a fire in a high-rise building in Yeysk has increased to 15 people, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the administration of the Krasnodar Territory.
"The death toll has risen to 15," the source said.
As the vice-governor of the region Anna Minkova clarified in her Telegram channel, the 51-year-old patient who died in the hospital became the fifteenth dead in the fire in Yeysk.
She added that a total of 43 people were injured.
"Now it is reliably known about 43 victims, of which nine are children. There are 25 people in hospitals (22 of moderate severity, three of them in serious condition), including two pregnant women and six children. Outpatient treatment is three patients," the vice president explained. -governor.
Earlier it was reported about 14 dead and 26 injured.
Four victims were transported for treatment to Krasnodar. One of them is in extremely serious condition and "causes great concern" among doctors, said the head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko.
In the afternoon, the governor of the region , Veniamin Kondratiev, said that search and rescue operations at the site of the tragedy were completed.
The night before in Yeysk , a Russian supersonic fighter-bomber Su-34 crashed into the courtyard of a nine-story residential building , taking off from a nearby airfield. The pilots ejected.
After the fall, aviation fuel caught fire, the fire spread to an area of ​​​​2,000 square meters. The first five floors of an apartment building caught fire.
The investigation considers the technical malfunction of the aircraft as the main version of the crash of the fighter.
The Investigative Committee said that military investigators, criminologists and representatives of the forensic center are working at the scene of the emergency. Employees of the department interrogated the pilots and airfield personnel, seized flight recorders, fuel samples and documentation.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article "Violation of flight rules or preparation for them."