MOSCOW: A Russian An-26 military transport plane crashed into a cliff in Crimea, killing 29 people on board, Russian news agencies reported the country’s defense ministry as saying early on Wednesday. TASS news agency, quoting the ministry, said the crash site had been located in Crimea, a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014. The ministry said 23 passengers and six crew members had been killed. The media reports did not say how many people were on board, but they did not mention any survivors.

Search and rescue teams have been dispatched to the scene of a potential incident

Un avión de transporte del Ejército ruso que estaba sobrevolando la península de Crimea se estrelló en un acantilado, provocando la muerte de los 23 pasajeros y 6 integrantes de…