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| Police officers and officials look at
debris of the Armenian Armavia A-320, crashed Wednesday, May 3, 2006, at
the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi sea port. (Xinhua/AFP
Photo) | MOSCOW, May 3
(Xinhua) -- All the 113 passengers and crew who were on board the airbus that
went down into the Black Sea near Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi have been
killed, the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations said on Wednesday.
The Airbus A-320 of the Armenian airline belonging to
the air company Armavia had 113 people on board, including six children and
eight crew, the ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov was quoted by the Itar-Tass
news agency as saying.
Twenty-five bodies of those killed were found after
the crash, Beltsov said.
According to the list of passengers placed in the
hall of the international airport Zvartnots of Yerevan, the capital city of
Armenia, 28 Russian citizens were aboard the crashed jet.
Bad weather condition is considered as a main
explanation of the crash, Beltsov said. Enditem
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