Moscow: A Russian plane with 200 people on board crashed on landing in Siberia early on Sunday.
Interfax news agency quoted local security services as saying more than 150 people had been killed.
The Airbus A-310 passenger plane on a night flight from Moscow to Irkutsk was carrying 192 passengers and eight crew members when it crashed on landing.
RIA news agency said during its final approach after the flight of about 5,000 km, the plane overran the runway, crashed into a building and caught fire.
"Forty-three people were taken to hospital with burns. About 150 people were killed, according to our preliminary information," Interfax quoted a source at the prosecutor's office in Irkutsk as saying.
Those killed included the eight-member crew, Interfax said.
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