ALMATY — A military transport plane crashed in southern Kazakhstan on Tuesday, killing all 27 people on board, the RIA news agency quoted a senior Kazakh emergencies ministry official as saying. “The plane has burnt up, only some of its fragments remain,” RIA quoted the head of the regional emergencies department as saying. Kazakh TV channel KTK said the plane had disappeared from radar screens at about 1900 local time (1300 GMT) as it was making a descent near the city of Shymkent, the capital of the South Kazakhstan Region. Kazakhstan's KNB security service said the plane, bound for Shymkent from the capital Astana, belonged to its border troops. — Reuters