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