Nearly 1,000 people mobilized to rescue crashed plane
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-05-18 16:19

Nearly 1,000 police officers, armed police and civilians took part in the efforts to search for the dead crew men and deal with the aftermath of a plane crash near the Urumqi International Airport of the regional capital of Xinjiang.

The regional government has set up a leading group to direct the rescue work.

An Azerbaijiani Il-76 cargo plane crashed Tuesday morning among local residential areas in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The crash occurred at around 11"Rescuers have found seven charred bodies of the crew of the ill-fated Azerbaijan cargo plane, which crashed into the livestock sheds of three local farmers, local police said.

The search for the black boxes of the crashed plane is still going on.

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