According to the Kazakh authorities, the accident claimed 38 lives.
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu expressed his condolences to the people of Azerbaijan after the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane in Kazakhstan, the Agerpres agency reported on Friday, writes TASR.
“The Romanian government expresses its support to the citizens of Azerbaijan. We express our condolences to the families of the victims of the tragic accident and wish a speedy recovery to all the injured,” Prime Minister Ciolacu said on Friday via the X social platform.
The Embraer 190 aircraft of Azerbaijan Airlines with 67 people on board was heading from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Chechen capital Grozny on Wednesday. The plane caught fire under unclear circumstances and crashed near the port city of Aktau, which lies on the coast of the Caspian Sea in western Kazakhstan. According to local media reports, the Azerbaijani government believes that the plane was damaged by a missile from the Russian Pancir S air defense system during the Ukrainian drone attack.
