A plane crash in Kazakhstan killed dozens and left 25 others alive, officials said

The Kazakh Ministry of Transport announced that a passenger plane belonging to Azerbaijan Airlines, which was on its way from the Kazakh capital, Baku, to Grozny, Russia, crashed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan.

The country’s Ministry of Emergencies said the plane was carrying 62 passengers and five crew members, and 25 people survived. The ministry said that 22 people were taken to hospital.

Azerbaijan Airlines, the country’s national carrier, said the Embraer 190 “made an emergency landing” about two miles from Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.

The Ministry of Emergencies said crews extinguished a fire at the site.