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Les huit membres d’équipage d’un avion-citerne russe sont morts samedi lorsque l’appareil s’est écrasé en Turquie, aggravant le bilan humain des catastrophes naturelles à répétition qui ont frappé ce pays ces dernières semaines.
The Russian Defense Ministry says 8 Russian and Turkish crew members were killed after a firefighting plane leased from Russia crashed Saturday in a mountainous area in southern Turkey
The amphibious Beriev BE-200 plane is believed to have exploded upon impact while attempting to land in Turkey s mountainous Adana province, the Russian defence ministry said.