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Russian plane with 224 passengers and crew on board crashes in Egypt

An Airbus 321 of Kogalymavia. A similar aircraft with 224 souls on board has crashed  in a mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

Cairo: A Russian plane with 224 people on board crashed in a mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, with medics at the site reporting casualties, officials said.

Ambulances reached the site and began evacuating "casualties," officials and state media reported, without elaborating on their condition.

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