Plane crash kills 22 in Kazakhstan

A passenger plane crashed in thick fog near Kazakhstan's commercial capital of Almaty yesterday, killing all 22 people on board, an emergency services official said.
The Canadian-built Bombardier Challenger CRJ-200 was en route from the city of Kokshetau in northern Kazakhstan to Almaty in the southeast when it crashed near the village of Kyzyl Tu, Deputy Almaty Mayor Maulen Mukashev said.
“There was no fire, no explosion. The plane just plunged to the earth," Yuri Ilyin, deputy head of the city's emergencies department, told Reuters near the scene. Ilyin put the death toll at 22.