Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan, killing 38

Aircraft was hundreds of miles off scheduled route when it crashed

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A drone view shows emergency specialists working at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Dec. 25. © Reuters

ASTANA/TBILISI/BAKU (Reuters) -- An Embraer passenger jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people, after diverting from an area of Russia that Moscow has recently defended against Ukrainian drone attacks.

Twenty-nine survivors received hospital treatment.

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