12 Killed After Jetliner Crashes in Kazakhstan
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05 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2019 world Australian wildfires threaten Sydney water supplies 12 killed after jetliner crashes in Kazakhstan Dozens injured in the• crash that took place shortly after takeoff Dick Pearson from the Sydney Catchment Authority stands in front of Sydney’s Warragamba Dam to show the lowest level the dam has ever been The plane lost altitude• and crashed Reuters | Sydney 80% of Sydney’s 5 million residents. into a building ustralian authorities said “In recent days up to the Ayesterday they are focused cool change, the fires had AFP | Almaty, Kazakhstan on protecting water plants, been a potential threat to sup- pumping stations, pipes and ply and assets, particularly in welve people died and other infrastructure from in- Warragamba and in the Blue dozens were injured yes- tense bushfires surrounding Mountains,” a spokesman for Tterday when a passen- Sydney, the country’s largest the state’s water authority, Wa- ger plane carrying 100 people city. terNSW, told Reuters. crashed shortly after takeoff Firefighters battling the “With the coming very hot from Kazakhstan’s largest city blazes for weeks received a re- conditions the fire situation and slammed into a house, of- prieve of slightly cooler, damp- may escalate in both those ficials said. er conditions over Christmas, fronts and possibly elsewhere.” A video released by the Cen- but the respite is not expected Warragamba Dam is located tral Asian country’s emergen- to last long. 65km (40 miles) west of Syd- cies committee showed the Temperatures in New South ney, catching water flowing plane operated by budget carrier Rescuers working at the site of a passenger plane crash outside Almaty Wales (NSW) state are fore- from the mountains. Bek Air split into pieces with cast to head back towards 40 It is at 44.8% capacity, down its nose crushed into a partially tolls provided by officials and model, which is no longer man- degrees Celsius (104 Fahren- from almost being full less collapsed house, as rescue crews media. ufactured, would be grounded heit) early next week, fuelling than three years ago, as a pro- worked to pull people from the Eight of the victims died at the BETTER until the cause of the accident fires near Warragamba Dam, longed drought ravages the wreckage. scene of the disaster, two while became clear. which provides water to about continent’s east. Rescue workers could be seen receiving medical attention at Bek Air describes itself on its reaching into the windows of the airport and two in hospital. KNOW website as Kazakhstan’s first the shattered cockpit, as scores The health ministry said 53 low-cost airline. of emergency staff rushed to people had been injured, nine In March 2016, a Bek Air the site. of whom were children, adding The Fokker 100 plane Fokker 100 plane with 116 pas- Philippines bans two US senators The plane disappeared from that 10 adults were in critical sengers made an emergency Reuters | Manila rick Leahy. the radar minutes after it took condition. was 23 years old landing at the capital’s interna- Duterte’s move comes after off from Almaty airport at 7.05 Deputy Prime Minister Ro- tional airport after its landing he Philippines has banned the U.S. Congress approved a am (01:05 GMT) on its way to man Sklyar said the tail of the gear failed to deploy. None of Ttwo U.S. lawmakers from 2020 budget that contains a the capital Nur-Sultan with 95 23-year-old had touched the responsible “will be severely the passengers or five-member visiting and will introduce provision introduced by the passengers and five crew mem- runway twice during takeoff. punished in accordance with crew were injured. tighter entry restrictions for senators against anyone in- bers, the airport authority said “Either this is a pilot error, or the law.” Swiss regional carrier Helvet- U.S. citizens should Washing- volved in holding de Lima, in a statement. there were technical reasons,” Tokayev also said a govern- ic Airways phased out its Dutch- ton enforce sanctions over the who was charged with drug It hit a concrete barrier and Sklyar said at a press conference ment commission had been set built Fokker-100s earlier this detention of a top government offences in early 2017 af - then slammed into a two-storey in Almaty. up to investigate the circum- year after 15 years of service. critic, the president’s spokes- ter she led an investigation building near the city’s bounda- No one was inside the house stances surrounding the tragedy. Informburo.kz news agency man said yesterday. into mass killings during ry northeast of the airport. that the plane crashed into, The interior ministry said it said one of its journalists, Dana President Rodrigo Duterte Duterte’s notorious anti-drugs Kazakhstan responded to the Khabar state television report- had also launched a criminal Kruglova, was among the dead. will impose a requirement crackdown. crash by grounding the model, ed. investigation into the incident “(Her) trip had been uncer- on U.S. nationals to get visas “We will not sit idly if they which makes up the whole of over violations of air transport tain, since she had work meet- should any Philippine officials continue to interfere with the Bek Air fleet, and launched Those responsible ‘will be safety rules. ings planned in Almaty. But involved in the incarceration our processes as a sovereign an investigation. punished’ The plane was 23 years old Dana wanted to celebrate the of Senator Leila de Lima be state,” Philippine presidential The country’s emergencies President Kassym-Jomart To- and had passed safety checks in New Year with her parents in denied entry to the United spokesman Salvador Panelo committee released a list of 12 kayev pledged to provide fami- May, Kazakh authorities said. Nur-Sultan and decided to take States, as sought by U.S. sen- told a regular news confer- people who died, including the lies of the victims with compen- The industry ministry said in this flight,” the news agency ators Richard Durbin and Pat- ence. captain, revising down earlier sation and tweeted that those a statement that the Fokker 100 said. Death toll reaches 28 as Philippines recovers from Christmas typhoon Reuters | Manila ilies. Some 43,000 people were sion when Phanphone hit. in temporary shelters yesterday, “We can’t really do much if he death toll from a Christ- among the 185,000 impacted by that’s what happened, we’ll have Tmas typhoon that tore the typhoon, which destroyed to accept it,” he told broadcaster through the central Philippines 49 homes and partially damaged ABS-CBN. “The important thing rose to 28 yesterday, with 12 peo- 2,000. 120 is to stay strong,” he said, sitting ple missing, the disaster agency There was widespread trav- kph was the speed of next to a casket. said, as authorities moved to re- el disruption with 115 flights the winds of Typhoon Television showed minor store power and residents tried canceled and thousands of Phanfone damage to the airport at Kali- to repair damaged homes. people stranded by the sus - bo, an alternative gateway to Typhoon Phanfone hit late pension of ferries due to storm the holiday island of Boracay, on Tuesday with winds of up surges. while the disaster agency said to 120 kph (75 mph) and gusts It was unclear how the deaths 55 schools had suffered some of 150 kph, dumping sheets of occurred, but officials said some debris, with wooden pillars and damage. uninterrupted rain on a string were hit by trees, electrocuted or sheets of corrugated iron roof The agriculture department of islands, damaging hundreds drowned. that were once homes, scattered estimated initial damages of 569 of homes and causing flooding “People did not expect that across the ground. Men pulled million pesos ($11.17 million) in eight areas. the storm would be that dev - tried to recover fishing boats mostly to fish farms. It was the seventh typhoon to astating,” said disaster agency with tangled or damaged out- Images on social media strike the Philippines this year spokesman Mark Timbal. People are seen amongst storm debris in Biliran, Philippines riggers. showed government workers and came as millions of people Though less powerful than least-developed islands. Philippines’ most powerful and Samar resident Virgilo clearing trees from roads, with in the predominantly Catholic other typhoons this year, Phan- Among them was the island deadliest storm on record. It Catayas, whose sibling was a clear blue sky after the storm country were heading home to phone made landfall in some of Samar, which bore the brunt killed more than 6,300 people. among those killed by Haiyan, moved out over the South China celebrate Christmas with fam- of the country’s poorest and of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, the Residents there were clearing said he lost another to hyperten- Sea late on Wednesday..