The death toll in Sunday's plane crash in Pakistan has risen to 20 people, Pakistani TV channels reported.
Earlier reports said that a Russian-made Il-76 cargo plane had crashed early on Sunday in Karachi in Pakistan, killing all eight crewmembers. The plane burst in flames shortly after a takeoff from the Karachi International Airport heading for Khartoum, Sudan, and went down in an upscale housing complex for naval officers.
According to Pakistani TV channels, at least 12 people were killed on the ground, apart from the eight crewmembers. This information has not yet been officially confirmed.
Rescue workers said they had recovered the bodies of two construction workers who had been inside the building, on which the plane had crashed.
A spokesman for Russia's consulate general in Karachi said on Sunday that one of the crewmembers killed in the air crash was a Russian national while the other crewmembers were presumably Ukrainians.
The plane belonged to the air company Sunway.
NEW DELHI, November 28 (RIA Novosti)
