At least 14 people died on Friday, when a passenger plane carrying 100 people crashed into a house, shortly after take-off from Kazakhstan's largest city.

In a statement the airport authority said the Bek Air plane "fell off the radar", minutes after it took off from Almaty airport at 07.05 this morning, on its way to the capital Nur-Sultan,

The city government said in a statement sent from its Telegram messenger app There are 14 dead at the (crash) site.

It added that a further 17 patients were being treated in hospital in a "serious condition", including at least eight children.

A video, released by the Central Asian country's emergencies committee, showed the front of the plane crashed into a house that was partially collapsed, as rescue crews worked to pull people from the wreckage.

Rescue workers could be seen reaching into the windows of the shattered cock pit, as scores of emergency staff gathered at the site.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev pledged to provide families of the victims with compensation and tweeted that those responsible "will be severely punished in accordance with the law".