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Criminal case on military plane crash filed in Azerbaijan (UPDATE-4)

The title was changed, new information on criminal case was added (the first version was posted at 6.21 p.m)
Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 4 / Trend K. Zarbaliyeva /
The Azerbaijani Military Prosecutor's Office filed a criminal case on a military plane crash in the country, spokesman for the military prosecutor's office Afraim Tahmazov told Trend.
The employees of the investigative group are conducting expertise at the crash site and collect the remains of the aircraft, Tahmazov said.
An Azerbaijani warplane SU-25 crashed on Thursday in the Kurdamir regıon of Azerbaijan, head of press service of Azerbaijani Defense Ministry Eldar Sabiroglu told Trend.
According to him, the crew is safe and has not been wounded. Also no one was wounded when the plane fell to the land.
Currently the causes of the event are being investigated.
Trend could identify in military sources the names of pilots of the plane, they were Lieutenant-Colonel Zaur Yusifli and Captain Khayyam Shukurov.
According to the initial version, the accident occurred during landing.
Trend special correspondent reports from the scene that the crash site has been cordoned off, employees of the Military Prosecutor's Office work on the scene.
The plane crashed in the 5-6 km from the residential houses in the village of Sor Sor.
The press service of the Military Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan told Trend that the head of investigation department for heinous crimes Jafar Jafarov, investigators, criminologists and representatives of Terter Military Prosecutor's Office work on the scene.
Kurdamir is located at about 180 km from Baku.

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