KARACHI - The bodies of 12 victims of the Russian cargo plane crash were recovered while the rescuers were unable to recover the black box from the rubble. According to reports, Russian cargo plane IL-76, flight number MGCC142, carrying 3.5 tonnes of goods including oil and eight foreign crewmembers reached Karachi from Emirates and took off at 01:48 am for Khartoum, Sudan. Fire erupted in the left engine of the ill-fated plane and it crashed at 01:49 am and hit an under-construction building known as Navel Heights located in the Navy residential area of PNS Shahbaz. Colonel Mukhtar Butt, Media Consultant Civil Aviation, told The Nation that they could not say anything about the reason behind the incident while a committee had been formed under the supervision of Commodore Khawaja Abdul Majeed to probe into the incident. He said that all eight foreigners crewmembers and four local labourers sleeping inside the construction building died. The removal of the rubbles is under way and the black box of the plane is yet to be recovered, he added. Rescuers of various organisations including scores of volunteers rushed towards the spot and dig out some four mutilated bodies within two hours of the incidents while rest of the eight bodies were recovered in the morning. SSP Shad-Ibne-Mashi while taking to The Nation said that the bodies of 12 victims had been recovered so far and shifted to the hospital for identification. He said that one passer-by namely Sajid sustained injures and shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi. He further said that rescue work was yet to be completed while various teams were engaged in removing the rubble. Dr Hamid Padhyar, Police Surgeon, when contacted, said that three bodies of the labourers were identified as Shahid, Khuda Bux and Ejaz. He further said that it was difficult to identify rest of the bodies without DNA test. He said that the samples of the bodies had been taken out for DNA. The unlucky labourers Ejaz and Shahid came to Karachi from Multan just a day before the incident. Ejaz was married just six months ago and was the youngest among 6 siblings and came to Karachi for earning livelihood. Another victim Shahid was a nephew of Ejaz and a father of three children. He was a resident of Krore Pakka near Lodhran. The third one, namely Khuda Bux was unmarried and belonged to Jalalpur Pirwala, Multan. Another mutilated body of a local person was yet to be identified. Agencies add: The death toll in the Russian-made cargo plane crash in Karachi was mounted to 12 on Sunday, a spokesman for Civil Aviation Authority said. According to Russian media reports, a bird strike was suspected in the crash of the Russian-made Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane in Karachi. Authorities said the Ilyushin IL-76 operated by Georgian airline Sunway slammed into buildings soon after refuelling and taking off from airport in Karachi.