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Moscow, June 23 (Interfax) - Media reports that alcohol has been found in the blood of one of the pilots of a Russian airliner that crashed near Petrozavodsk on Monday, killing 45 people, are untrue, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax on Thursday.

Markin said post mortems of the pilots’ bodies had just started and "have produced no results yet."

The Tupolev Tu-134 of the RusAir airline on a charter flight from Moscow to Petrozavodsk, capital of Russia’s Karelia republic, crash-landed outside Petrozavodsk airport.

The incident killed 45 people, and seven others were badly injured.