8 Oct 2013 18:12

Russian emergency ministry's plane brings Russian, CIS, Syrian citizens from Syria to Moscow

MOSCOW. Oct 8 (Interfax) - A total of 76 Russian, CIS and Syrian citizens have been flown in from Syria on a Russian emergency ministry's jet.

"The Emergency Ministry's plane, an Il-62 with 76 people on board, mostly women and children willing to leave Syria, flew from Latakia to Moscow at 4.55 p.m. Moscow time," Russian Emergency Ministry's spokesperson Irina Rossius told Interfax.

Forty seven Russian, six Ukrainian, one Moldovan and 22 Syrian nationals are among those to leave Syria.

The plane will land in Moscow's Domodedovo airport on Tuesday evening, Rossius said.