Kazakhstan officials said 38 people have died after an Azerbaijani airliner crashed yesterday near the Kazakh city of Aktau.

Deputy Prime Minister KANAT BOZUMBAEV visited survivors of the plane crash at the hospital and disclosed the death toll while meeting with Azerbaijani officials.

An unnamed survivor at the hospital said he could not find his wife after the plane crash.

The plane crashed while en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus.