Search operation suspended until Monday

Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said Sunday that the search for victims of a Russian plane that crashed into the Black Sea earlier today would resume Monday.

"The operation on raising wreckage and bodies of the victims will be continued tomorrow morning," Sokolov said, according to Sputnik news agency. 

On Sunday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry's Tu-154 aircraft en route to Syria with 92 people on board crashed into the Black Sea shortly after refueling at an airport in the Russian resort city of Adler.

Fragments of the plane were discovered one mile from the sea shore of Sochi.

Most of the passengers were members of the famous army choir of the Russian armed forces, the Alexandrov Ensemble, who were traveling from Moscow to Hmeymim airbase in Syria to put on a New Year concert for Russian troops deployed there.

Source: MENA