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| A military plane said to be carrying senior Kazakh security officials has crashed in the south of the country, reports say. | A military plane said to be carrying senior Kazakh security officials has crashed in the south of the country, reports say. |
| Twenty-seven people were on board the flight, which went down near the city of Shymkent, officials said. | |
| The Antonov An-72 plane was carrying members of Kazakhstan's border service, including acting head Turganbek Stambekov. | |
| One news agency, quoting an unconfirmed source, said all 27 had been killed. | |
| However, that report was not confirmed by the KNB security service. | |
| Seven crew and 20 military personnel were on board the military transport plane, Kazakhstan's Committee for National Security said in a statement. | |
| KTK TV said the plane had disappeared from radar shortly before 19:00 Kazakhstan time (13:00 GMT) as it was making its descent near Shymkent, which is the main Kazakh city in the south, some 75 miles (120km) north of the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. | |
| Interfax-Kazakhstan said that one of Col Stambekov's deputies and several regional border service commanders were also on the flight, from the Kazakh capital, Astana, to Shymkent. | |
| Col Stambekov was made acting head of the service in June, weeks after 14 border troops were found dead at a burnt-out border post near Kazakhstan's frontier with China. |