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Summary At least 32 people were killed in a plane crash in Siberia, Russian on Monday.
A passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after taking off Monday morning, killing 32 of the 43 people on board, Russian emergency officials said. The 11 survivors were hospitalized in serious condition.The ATR-72, a French-Italian-made twin-engine turboprop, operated by UTair was flying from Tyumen to the oil town of Surgut with 39 passengers and four crew.The aircraft went down on a snowy field outside Tyumen, a major regional center in Siberia. The cause of the crash was not yet clear.UTair published a list of the passengers and crew, and none of them appeared to be foreigners.The Emergency Situations Ministry said 12 survivors were flown to a hospital by helicopter, but one of them died there.
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