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Over 50 flights delayed at Moscow airports over smog from wildfires (Update 1)

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Services at Moscow's airports are returning to normal, but over 50 flights are still delayed due to smog caused by raging wildfires, spokespeople said.

Services at Moscow's airports are returning to normal, but over 50 flights are still delayed due to smog caused by raging wildfires, spokespeople said.

As of 16:00 Moscow time [noon GMT], 29 departing flights and 33 arriving flights are delayed at Domodedovo airport, a spokesman for the Russian air transport agency Rosaviatsiya said.

Vnukovo airport delayed 25 departing flights and 24 arriving flights, Sergei Izvolsky said.

Visibility on the runways at Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports is about 2.8 kilometers, he said.

Sheremetyevo airport, in Moscow's north, with a visibility of just 600 meters, delayed 5 departing flights and 11 arriving flights, the airport's press service said.

MOSCOW, August 6 (RIA Novosti) 

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