[SAHARAREPORTERS] The Russian government has said 10 bodies and flight recorders have been recovered from the crash site of the ill-fated plane carrying Wagner Chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and his allies.According to officials on Friday, an investigative committee is carrying out molecular genetic testing to identify the bodies from the crash site.
The jet crashed soon after taking off from Moscow for St Petersburg. It was believed to be carrying the powerful mercenary group’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, six other Wagner members, and a crew of three, Russia’s civil aviation authority said.
Rescue workers found 10 bodies at the spot of the jet’s remains, the Russian media reported citing anonymous sources from Wagner group which confirmed that their top leader was dead.
The officials have not confirmed the identities of the 10 bodies recovered from the wreckage.
Russian Sherlocks have opened a probe into what happened. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
they have not yet said what was the suspected cause that led to the plane’s sudden fall from the sky. A video of the crash showed the plane spinning and falling from several metres high altitude as smoke emanated from it.
Prigozhin was also listed among those aboard the private plane flying northwest of Moscow. The crash has no survivors and comes exactly two months after Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against army chiefs.
While there has been no official confirmation of Prigozhin’s death, he has been eulogised by president Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...who sent his condolences to the families of those killed in the crash on Thursday and spoke of Prigozhin in the past tense.
Citing preliminary information, the Russian president condoled the death of Prigozhin and his top Wagner associates. While praising Prigozhin, Mr Putin said he also made some "serious mistakes" without elaborating on them.
Western politicians and commentators have suggested, without presenting evidence, that the Russian leader ordered Prigozhin to be killed to punish him for launching the June mutiny against the army’s leadership which also represented the biggest challenge to Mr Putin’s rule since he came to power in 1999.
British military intelligence said on Friday there was not yet definitive proof that Prigozhin had been onboard but that it was "highly likely" he was dead.
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