Three dead as airliner makes emergency landing in Ukraine

Three people died when an Antonov AN-24 plane of Ukraine's domestic airlines with 36 passengers on board made an emergency landing on Wednesday at the eastern city of Donetsk, police said.

Three people died when an Antonov AN-24 plane of Ukraine's domestic airlines with 36 passengers on board made an emergency landing on Wednesday at the eastern city of Donetsk, police said.

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"Three deaths have been tallied," a local police source said, adding that the airliner had landed in a field 700 metres from the airport runway.

Earlier Interfax news agency had quoted the emergency situations ministry as saying at least one person had died in the mishap.