A Russian businessman and his wife are believed to have been on a private jet that crashed in Afghanistan during a medical evacuation, per Russian media.
Confirming the plane crash in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province in the early morning hours on Sunday, the Ministry said the aircraft was an air ambulance flying from Thailand to Moscow.
Men dug through rubble with their bare hands and shovels in western Afghanistan on Sunday after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit a densely populated area near Herat.