Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that a passenger plane that crashed last week, killing 38 people, had been damaged by shooting from the ground in Russia, and he said some in Russia had lied about the cause of the disaster.

The Embraer 190 passenger jet was en route from Azerbaijan's capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus on Wednesday when it changed course and then crashed around two miles from Aktau in Kazakhstan.

Russia's leader apologises over the downing of an Azerbaijani plane in Russian airspace - without directly taking blame.