Russian Tu-134 crash victims buried in Moscow

The bodies of Russian passengers who perished in the Tu-134 air crash near the northern city of Petrozavodsk June 20, have been buried in seven Moscow graveyards, the Mosritual state funeral service said on its website on Tuesday. The jet took off from Moscow and was due to arrive in Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, at 12:04 a.m. on Tuesday (20:04 GMT Monday), but crash landed on a nearby highway, which was shrouded in fog, killing 44 people on impact and injuring eight. There were 52 people, including nine crew members, on board the ill-fated flight. The death toll from the plane crash rose to 47 on Sunday, five survivors remain hospitalized. Mosritual did not specify how many victims were buried in Karelia and how many were buried in Moscow. The bodies of the citizens of Sweden, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Belarus, who were among those who died in the crash, have been delivered to Moscow.