A private jet has crashed over Russia, killing all 10 people on board, emergency officials say.
Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list, but it wasn’t immediately clear if he was on board.
Unconfirmed media reports said the jet belonged to Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner private military company.
Russia’s state news agency Tass cited emergency officials as saying that the plane carried three pilots and seven passengers.
It was not clear if Prigozhin was among those on board, though Russia’s civilian aviation regulator, Rosaviatsia, said he was on the passenger list.
The plane was en route from Moscow to St Petersburg and went down in the Tver region, more than 100km north of the capital. Authorities are investigating.
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