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(Vatican Radio) The Health Ministry in Kyrgyzstan says a leased Turkish cargo plane has crashed in a residential area just outside the Central Asian country's main airport, killing some 37 people, most of them local villagers, as well as crew on board the aircraft. The Turkish Boeing 747 crash-landed just outside the Manas airport, south of the capital Bishkek.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Residents rushed to the site where the cargo plane crashed. People carried away a distressed woman. Officials said Monday's crash killed more than a dozen residents here in the village where the plane crashed near Kyrgyzstan's main Manas airport. Others were killed aboard the cargo plane. Many are reported injured. Local emergency services are working on the scene between burning wreckage. Efforts are under way to extinguish fires caused by the crash.Kyrgyzstan transport ministry reportedly said there were five people on board. It identified the plane as a Turkish Airl...
(Vatican Radio) The Health Ministry in Kyrgyzstan says a leased Turkish cargo plane has crashed in a residential area just outside the Central Asian country's main airport, killing some 37 people, most of them local villagers, as well as crew on board the aircraft. The Turkish Boeing 747 crash-landed just outside the Manas airport, south of the capital Bishkek.
Listen to Stefan Bos' report:
Residents rushed to the site where the cargo plane crashed. People carried away a distressed woman. Officials said Monday's crash killed more than a dozen residents here in the village where the plane crashed near Kyrgyzstan's main Manas airport.
Others were killed aboard the cargo plane. Many are reported injured. Local emergency services are working on the scene between burning wreckage. Efforts are under way to extinguish fires caused by the crash.
Kyrgyzstan transport ministry reportedly said there were five people on board. It identified the plane as a Turkish Airlines Boeing 747-400, but the company told media that it belonged to another Turkish firm, ACT Airlines.
"Our condolences to the families of those who have lost their lives in the tragic incident involving an ACT Airlines aircraft in Kyrgyzstan," said Turkish Airlines in a message in social networking service Twitter.
MILITARY OPERATIONS
Until 2014, the U.S. military operated a military installation at the Manas airport, using it primarily for its operations in Afghanistan.
Government spokeswoman Tolgonai Stamaliyeva says the plane -- which was en route from Hong Kong to Istanbul - was going to land at Manas airport to refuel. But it crashed in a populated area, damaging some 20 houses.
The cause of the crash has not yet been determined. However the area where the plane crashed was reported to be foggy at the time.
Airport officials said there were an unknown number of crew aboard the plane but no passengers. Government officials have rushed to the crash scene to investigate.
It has added to misery to in this impoverished ex-Soviet Central Asian of six million people.
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday received in audience Prof. Alpha Condé, President of the Republic of Guinea.The leader of the West African nation also met with the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and with the Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Richard Gallagher.A Vatican press released described the colloquiums as cordial and said they highlighted the good relations that exist between the Holy See and the Republic of Guinea.It said they focused on questions of common interest such as integral human development, care of the environment, the fight against poverty and social injustice and the development of adequate policies in regards to the phenomenon of migration.The important role and the contribution of Catholic institutions that operate in the country, particularly in fields of education, healthcare and the promotion of inter-religious dialogue were also discussed and highlighted. The Republic of Guinea’s concr...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday received in audience Prof. Alpha Condé, President of the Republic of Guinea.
The leader of the West African nation also met with the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and with the Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Richard Gallagher.
A Vatican press released described the colloquiums as cordial and said they highlighted the good relations that exist between the Holy See and the Republic of Guinea.
It said they focused on questions of common interest such as integral human development, care of the environment, the fight against poverty and social injustice and the development of adequate policies in regards to the phenomenon of migration.
The important role and the contribution of Catholic institutions that operate in the country, particularly in fields of education, healthcare and the promotion of inter-religious dialogue were also discussed and highlighted.
The Republic of Guinea’s concrete commitment to work for peace in the West African region was an also object of attention.
Prof. Alpha Condé has been President of the Republic of Guinea since December 2010 after having spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes.
When he took office he became the first freely elected president in the country's history, and then he was reelected in 2015 with almost 58% of the vote.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) -- A Turkish cargo plane crashed Monday in a residential area just outside the main airport in Kyrgyzstan, killing 37 people on the ground and in the plane, the Emergency Situations Ministry said....
