Plane with 100 on board crashes in Kazakhstan, 9 dead

At least nine people were killed after a plane with 100 people on board crashed on Friday shortly after taking off from the Almaty airport in Kazakhstan, officials said.

"Today at 7.22 a.m., Bek Air Flight Z2100 en route from Almaty to Nur-Sultan lost altitude and crashed into a concrete structure," TASS News Agency quoted the press service of the Committee of Civil Aviation at Kazakhstan's Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development, as saying.