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UPDATE: Russian trainer plane explodes on landing, killing 3

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MOSCOW/ST. PETERSBURG, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Officials of the Russian Emergencies Ministry's St. Petersburg department said three people were killed in a trainer plane accident near the city Saturday.

They said the Yak plane exploded on landing, claiming the lives of two men and a woman on board, and that the cause of the explosion is yet to be established.

Earlier, spokesmen at the ministry's Moscow headquarters reported the blast occurred in midair and that there were two fatalities.

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