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An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed near the Caspian Sea city of Aktau in Kazakhstan during an emergency landing on Wednesday, killing 38 people.

Rescuers reported 29 survivors from the 62 passengers and five crew members on the flight from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny in southern Russia.

A video of the crash showed the plane descending rapidly before bursting into flames as it hit the seashore, with thick black smoke then rising.

In Gaza, explosives carried by robots were placed by Israel outside Kamal Adwan Hospital and Indonesian Hospital in the northern part of the enclave.

Speaking to The National on Wednesday, Kamal Adwan Hospital's director Dr Hossam Abu Safiyeh said the scenes have been terrifying as Israel claims to be attacking Hamas militants.

Fourteen members of the Syrian police were killed in an “ambush” by troops loyal to the ousted government in the Tartus countryside, the transitional administration said early on Thursday.

The development comes as demonstrations and an overnight curfew in another part of the country marked the most widespread unrest since president Bashar Al Assad's removal more than two weeks ago.