Kazakhstan Plane Crash: A passenger plane crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (December 25). According to local media in Kazakhstan, there were more than 70 people on board the plane, including passengers and crew. According to AP report, Kazakhstan's Emergency Ministry said that 42 people are likely to have died in the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash.

According to Russian news agencies, the Azerbaijan Airlines plane was flying from Baku to Grozny in Chechnya, Russia, but was diverted due to fog in Grozny. Kazakhstan officials said some passengers survived the crash.

Alleged videos of the accident surfaced

Alleged videos of the crash have surfaced on social media, showing a plane crashing to the ground and bursting into a fireball. Other videos showed first responders standing near the mangled remains of the plane and trying to rescue survivors.

What did Azerbaijan Airlines say?

More than 70 people, including crew members, were on board the Embraer 190 aircraft of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight No. 8243. The airline said it had to make an emergency landing about 3 km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh city of Aktau. Kazakhstan authorities said the causes of the accident, including a possible technical problem, were being investigated.

The injured are being treated in the hospital

Kazakhstan's emergency ministry later said fire services had extinguished the fire that broke out after the crash and survivors were being treated at a nearby hospital. In another deadly plane crash, 10 people were killed on Sunday when a small plane crashed in a Brazilian city popular with tourists.

The 10 people who died were passengers and crew members on board the plane. Brazil's civil protection agency said more than a dozen people on the ground were injured in the incident. It was not immediately clear what caused the accident. Local media reported that the passengers were members of the same family and were traveling from another city in Rio Grande do Sul state to Sao Paulo state.