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A plane with 100 people on board has crashed in Kazakhstan, officials say. A plane with 100 people on board has crashed in Kazakhstan, airport officials say.
They say the Bek Air aircraft went down shortly after taking off at Almaty airport on Friday morning local time.They say the Bek Air aircraft went down shortly after taking off at Almaty airport on Friday morning local time.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. Emergency service personnel have rushed to the scene and seven deaths have been confirmed. Survivors are being evacuated, the airport said.
You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. The plane was en route from Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, to the country's capital of Nur-Sultan.
Almaty's airport said there were 95 passengers and five crew on board.
It said the plane lost height at 07:22 local time (01:22 GMT), before striking a concrete barrier and crashing into a two-storey building.
There was no fire upon impact.
Footage has emerged of rescuers working at the scene. In it, a woman can be heard calling for an ambulance and the cockpit of the plane is seen wedged into the side of the building.
A special commission will be set up to determine the cause of the crash.
Bek Air was founded in 1999, targeting VIP flight operations, the company's website says. Nowadays, the company describes itself as Kazakshtan's first low-cost airline. Its fleet is seven Fokker-100 aircraft.
This is not the first serious plane crash in the city - on 29 January 2013, a passenger plane travelling from the northern town of Kokshetau came down near Almaty, killing 20 people
A month earlier, on December 26 2012, a military plane carrying senior Kazakh security officials crashed in the south of the country, killing 27 people.