Foreigners reported among Russian plane crash dead

Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:57am BST
 
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twenty-one foreigners, including Westerners, were among the 88 people killed in the plane crash near the Ural mountains on Sunday, Russia's national airline Aeroflot said.

It identified the foreigners as nine people from Azerbaijan, five from Ukraine and one person each from France, Switzerland, Latvia, the United States, Germany, Turkey and Italy.

(Reporting by James Kilner)

 

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