DAY OF MOURNING
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev declared Thursday a day of mourning and cancelled a deliberate go to to Russia for an off-the-cuff summit of the Commonwealth of Unbiased States (CIS), a grouping of former Soviet nations.
“I lengthen my condolences to the households of those that misplaced their lives within the crash … and need a speedy restoration to the injured,” Aliyev stated in a social media submit on Wednesday.
The Flight Radar web site confirmed the aircraft deviating from its regular route, crossing the Caspian Sea after which circling over the realm the place it will definitely crashed close to Aktau, an oil and fuel hub on the jap shore of the ocean.
Kazakhstan stated the aircraft was carrying 37 Azerbaijani passengers, six Kazakhs, three Kyrgyz and 16 Russians.
