A nine-year-old boy and his teenage sister were among eight people who survived the air crash in the north of Russia that killed 44 including their mother, the emergencies ministry said yesterday
A nine-year-old boy and his teenage sister were among eight people who survived the air crash in the north of Russia that killed 44 including their mother, the emergencies ministry said yesterday.
Nine-year-old Anton Terekhin and his 14-year-old sister Anastasia Terekhina are being treated for severe injuries in hospital in Petrozavodsk close to where the plane crashed onto a motorway just before midnight.
44 people were killed when the plane crashed onto a highway and burst into flames in bad weather conditions, failing to make the runway
The brother and sister feature on a list of the eight survivors published by the Karelia branch of the emergencies ministry on its website.
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A spokeswoman confirmed that the two were being treated in hospital but that their mother Oksana was killed in the crash.
A stewardess also survived, the only one of the plane's crew who was not killed. "Both Anton and Nastya are unconscious with severe burns and wounds," said a local emergencies ministry official.
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It said that the uncle who was meeting them at the airport had watched the plane crash and then suffered a heart attack and dropped unconscious.
The plane hit the highway at speed, burst into flames and its fragments blasted hundreds of metres apart.
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It is unclear how the eight injured were able to survive the crash, which catapulted some of the corpses hundreds of metres away from the site of the accident.
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