Three killed as Russian passenger jet explodes

Three people died when a passenger plane caught fire and then exploded on a runway at a Siberian airport, Russian officials said today.

Sat, 01 Jan, 2011 - 15:46

Three people died when a passenger plane caught fire and then exploded on a runway at a Siberian airport, Russian officials said today.

Forty-three people were injured, 10 of them seriously.

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