Ten people were killed as an An-28 aircraft crashed in the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East region on Wednesday, officials said.
 
The plane, carrying 12 passengers and two crew members, crashed when the pilot was trying to make an emergency landing 10 km from the Palana town, said a spokeswoman with the Far Eastern branch of the country's Emergency Situations Ministry.
 
Rescuers initially found nine bodies on the site of the accident. According to latest reports, a child among the injured died of severe injuries, thus putting the death toll at 10, said the spokeswoman.
 
The plane lost contact with air control at 12:28 local time (0128 GMT), shortly before it was due to land at an airfield nearby.
 
It was on a flight from the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village of Palana, investigators said.
 
A rescue team onboard a Mi-8 helicopter found the wreckage on a mountain slope some 10 km away from the Palana village.
 
Local authorities confirmed the identities of the two dead crew members as commander Vyacheslav Shpak and second pilot Vladimir Danchenko.
 
Three men and one woman survived the crash, First Deputy Governor of the Kamchatka territory Alexander Potiyevsky said.
 
The four survivors treated by medical staff at the site were under close supervision before being transferred to nearby hospitals, emergency officials said.
 
Investigators from the Far Eastern Transport Investigation Department have been working at the scene. A probe into the incident is already under way, local officials said.
 
Russian Investigative Committee, the country's federal investigating body said a technical malfunction, bad weather conditions or human error could cause the crash.
 
Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Ilyukhin declared Thursday as a mourning day for the victims of the crash.
 
Families of the crash victims will get 200,000-ruble (6300 US dollars) of compensation, said the local government, adding the injured passengers will also get financial assistance.