A plane crash reportedly killed 10 people including Wagner Mercenary Group Leader Yevgeny Prigozhin Tuesday after crashing north of Moscow, Russian state media said.
One of the passengers on the plane was a person with the name Evgeny Prigozhin, RIA News said.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency has launched an investigation into the crash which happened in the Tver region of Russia, state-media RIA News posted on Telegram.
While Prigozhin was on the passenger list, it’s not clear if he definitively boarded the flight, the Associated Press reported.
“The plane that crashed in the Tver Region listed Yevgeny Prigozhin among its passengers, (Russia’s aviation agency) Rosaviatsia said,” TASS news agency reported, with RIA Novosti and Interfax issuing similar reports.
“There were 10 people on board, including 3 crew members. According to preliminary information, all those on board died,” Russia’s ministry for emergency situation had said shortly before.
Around 1700 GMT the ministry announced that a “private Embraer Legacy aircraft travelling from Moscow to Saint Petersburg crashed near the village of Kuzhenkino in the Tver Region.”
It said it was conducting search operations.