The former head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Urals, Shahin Shikhlinski, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for using violence against a public official, while his son, Mutvali Shikhlinski, received an eight-year sentence.

At least 12 people have been killed and five others injured following an explosion at a military plant near the Russian Urals city of Chelyabinsk.

An Airbus A321 flight bound for Russia’s Yekaterinburg made an emergency landing at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, the Egyptian civil aviation ministry said.