Thirty-one people were confirmed dead and 11 others injured in a passenger plane crash in Russia's Siberian region early Monday, informs the Russian emergency authorities. The injured people were pulled from the wreckage with serious wounds. They were airlifted to hospital by helicopter.A French-Italian-made ATR 72, a twin-engine plane with 39 passengers and 4 crew members, crashed at around 5:50 a.m. Moscow time (0150 GMT). It went down shortly after taking off from the airport in Tyumen, a key Siberian city about 2,100 kilometres east of Moscow. The aircraft was heading towards Surgut in Siberia.
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