Russian aircraft with 30 on board crashes in Siberia

A Russian aircraft with 30 people on board crashed today in Siberia's Yakutia;

no fatalities have been reported, tweeted the Russian Defense Ministry. The BBC however reported that 16 people were injured.
The plane crashed at 12:07 local time, a law enforcement source told Russian news agency Tass.
"The Il-18 plane, which flew from the Koltsovo airport in Yekaterinburg, on Monday, December 19, crashed 27 kilometers from the Tiksi village," the source added.

The crew and passengers are being evacuated and have been taken to a hospital in Tiksi, a village near the crash site.

Nearly 100 servicemen and two military Mi-8 helicopters are working at the Ilyushin Il-18 emergency landing site in Yakutia, a source in the regional emergency services told TASS.

"The search and rescue operation involves about 100 servicemen and two Mi-8 helicopters from the Tiksi airbase. The crash landing site has been found, it is located some 30 kilometers from the village of Tiksi," the source added.

TOI