ASTANA, December 25. /TASS/. Two children were injured in an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash near the Kazakh city of Aktau, Kazakhstan’s Commissioner for Children's Rights Dinara Zakiyeva confirmed.

"Two children have been taken [to the hospital]. Two girls, born in 2013 and 2008, are receiving the necessary medical care," she wrote on Instagram (prohibited in Russia due to its ownership by Meta, which is designated as extremist).

The Kazinform news agency reported earlier that two children, aged 11 and 16, had suffered injuries. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan Airlines stated that there had been no children aboard the flight.

An Embraer 190 passenger plane operated by Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), which was en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus region of Chechnya, crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau earlier on Wednesday. According to preliminary reports, there were 62 passengers and five crew members aboard the plane, nationals of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. Media reports say that at least 26 people survived.