Russian aviation authorities said on Sunday a Russian-registered plane traveling from India, via Uzbekistan to Moscow with six people thought to be on board disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan the previous night after local Afghan police said they had received reports of a crash.
Zabihullah Amiri, a spokesperson for Badakhshan's provincial government, told Reuters a team had been sent to the location of the crash, but it was a remote area more than 200 km (124 miles) from the provincial capital Fayzabad and would take the team 12 hours to reach