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(IsraelNN.com) A Chevra Kadisha burial society representative traveled with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar on Sunday to the site of a plane crash which left 88 people dead, including a Jewish family of four. The parents and their two children were residents of Perm, where the aircraft went down.

The Boeing-737 was traveling from Moscow to the Ural Mountains, and went down around 3:40 a.m., Sunday, as it was preparing to land. The cause of the crash is believed to be technical.

Among those killed were citizens from the United States, France, Turkey, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Latvia.