Russian warplane crash kills 13 in apartment block

At slightest 13 radical person present died aft a Russian fighter-bomber level crashed into an flat artifact successful the confederate Russian municipality of Yeysk, officials say.

The 2 pilots of the Su-34 jet, connected a grooming flight, ejected earlier it deed the gathering and caused a immense inferno.

Rescuers revised the decease toll aft finishing their hunt of the rubble, Russia's emergencies ministry said. Three children were among the victims.

The officials said 68 were rescued from the blaze successful the nine-storey block.

Nineteen injured radical are being treated pursuing the Monday evening crash.

"According to a study from the pilots, who jettisoned from the plane, the crushed for the clang was a occurrence successful 1 of the engines during instrumentality off," the Russian defence ministry said.

"At the constituent wherever the Su-34 came down, successful the courtyard of a residential block, the plane's substance proviso caught fire," it added.

Footage has emerged seemingly showing section residents trying to assistance 1 of the pilots, who tin beryllium seen lying connected the crushed with a parachute down him.

The larboard municipality of Yeysk lies adjacent the eastbound Ukrainian warfare zone, crossed the Sea of Azov from the devastated metropolis of Mariupol.

It has been utilized arsenic a large grooming crushed for Russia's naval aviation.

A section analogous successful Yeysk told Russia's state-run TV transmission Rossiya 24 that 2 of the flat blocks caught fire.

Pupils from a adjacent secondary schoolhouse were among much than 360 radical evacuated from the clang site, Russian media reported.

The Kremlin has ordered nationalist and determination authorities to supply "all indispensable assistance" to victims of the fire.

Russia's Investigative Committee said it had opened a transgression lawsuit and sent investigators to the scene.