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Four survive Pattaya-Moscow plane crash

Four survivors of a crash in northern Afghanistan of a plane on its way to Moscow were in good health, the Taliban administration said on Monday.

It also said that the bodies of two passengers killed in the accident were being moved to the Afghan capital from the remote crash site.

Russian aviation authorities said on Sunday the plane with six people thought to be on board disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan on Saturday night and Afghan police said they had received reports of a crash in mountainous Badakhshan province.

Video footage showed the four men, some of whom had bruising visible on their faces and one with bloodstains on his clothes, stepping off a helicopter with Taliban officials.

The video showed a Taliban official saying the health of the survivors was good.

The flight that crashed had been carrying out a private medical evacuation from Pattaya to Moscow, a Russian news agency said.

About 25 minutes before the plane vanished from radar screens, the pilot warned that fuel was running low and that the plane would try to land at an airport in Tajikistan, a Russian news outlet reported.

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