Russian bomber crashes – one dead

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Russian bomber crashes – one dead
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A pilot is reported to have been killed when a Russian fighter plane crashed during an exercise in Siberia late on Thursday.

Three more people were injured, according to the governor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev, on Telegram.

The plane, a strategic bomber of the Tupolev Tu-22M type, is said to have crashed after being hit by a technical fault.

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