Azerbaijan held a day of mourning on Thursday for the dozens of victims of an airliner crash in Kazakhstan, as questions were being asked over the cause of the disaster.

This is the moment emergency services arrive at the scene of the Azerbaijan Airlines crash site. Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia‘s Chechnya,

ASTANA/TBILISI/BAKU >> An Embraer passenger jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people, after diverting from an area of Russia that Moscow has recently defended against Ukrainian drone attacks.