Three children among the dead in Russian fighter crash near Ukraine


FILE PHOTO: A view shows a site of a plane crash on residential building in the southern city of Yeysk, Russia October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer

YEYSK, Russia (Reuters) - At least 13 people including three children were killed when a Sukhoi Su-34 fighter jet crashed into the courtyard of a nine-storey apartment building and exploded in a fireball in southern Russia just across the Sea of Azov from Ukraine.

The supersonic jet, which the defence ministry said was on a training flight, was seen on video footage speeding across the horizon on Monday with a fire in one engine before a blast and a fireball engulfed the building in the city of Yeysk.

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