Four people have been killed and four badly injured when a small plane crashed in Russia's Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia, the local emergency medical service says.
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TASS news agency had earlier reported that at least seven people were killed when the twin-engine L-410 aircraft crashed near the Tanay aerodrome, which provides parachuting services.
It also cited the office of the local prosecutor as saying the crew had sent a distress signal about engine failure.
A medical services spokesman told Reuters the injured were being airlifted to hospitals.
Social media showed pictures of the heavily damaged plane with an ambulance nearby.
A spokesman at a Siberian branch of Russian civil aviation agency Rosaviatsia said a search and rescue operation was under way, declining to provide details.
Australian Associated Press
