EMERCOM confirms Swedish national killed in N W Russia jet crash

PETROZAVODSK, June 21 (Itar-Tass) -- A Swedish national is among the
44 people who died late night Monday when a Tupolev-134 jet crash-landed
near the northwest Russian city of Petrozavodsk, the chief of the
Northwest Territorial Center of the Ministry for Emergency Situations and
Civil Defense /EMERCOM/, Shamsutdin Dagirov, told reporters.
"Early data indicates there was one foreigner aboard the jet," he
said. "The man was a national of Sweden and he died."
The list of passengers that EMERCOM headquarters published on its
official website early morning Tuesday features a person Jacob Wettrup by
name. Earlier reports indicated that he was traveling to Petrozavodsk to
attend a seminar on the activity of rescue workers.
Dagirov indicated that forensic identification of the bodies has not
begun yet.
"The bodies of only four victims of this tragedy have been taken to
the morgue by now, and five more bodies are ready for evacuation there,"
he said.
Arrival of the dead passengers' relatives is expected later Tuesday
and the identification procedures will begin after that, Dagirov said.
Also, a special commission formed by the CIS Interstate Aviation
Committee is due to arrive.
Dagirov confirmed that the misfortunate jet's flight recorders had
been found but they were still kept at the site of the accident.
He revealed that the first reports about the crash-landing of the jet
had come from eyewitnesses.