A passenger plane carrying 67 people crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning after colliding with birds while traveling from Azerbaijan to Russia, authorities said.

The Azerbaijan Airlines flight, which crashed near Aktau, a city in southwestern Kazakhstan, had 62 passengers and 5 crew members on board, Kazakhstan’s emergencies ministry said in a post on Telegram. It said that there were “25 survivors, 22 of whom were taken to hospital.”

Russian state news agency RIA Novosti…