A passenger plane with 181 people onboard crashed in the South Korean city of Muan on Sunday.

The plane, Jeju Air, which had malfunctioning landing gear veered off the runway, hit a fence, before going up in flames at the airport.

The Jeju Air jetliner was carrying 175 passengers and six crew when it crashed on landing at the airport in Muan county.

The ill-fated plane was returning from Bangkok in Thailand when the incident occured.

AP News quoted South Korean media as reporting that the fire left over 28 people either dead or injured, while two people were evacuated to safety.

South Jeolla province Fire Service Headquarters said that the number is expected to grow as recovery operations continue.

The office said the fire was put out and rescue officials were trying to remove passengers from the aircraft.

However, a fire department official who spoke to CNN said the airplane had been “almost completely destroyed” by fire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday, his office said after he was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection.

The procedure comes with Israel at war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip more than 14 months after the Palestinian militants carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7 last year.

Netanyahu underwent a test at Hadassah Hospital on Wednesday, where he was “diagnosed with a urinary tract infection resulting from a benign prostate enlargement,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement.

“As a result, the prime minister will undergo prostate removal surgery tomorrow,” it said.

In March, he underwent a hernia surgery, while in July last year doctors implanted a pacemaker in Netanyahu after a medical scare.

Universities in the United States have urged international students to resume before president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Trump is set to be sworn in on January 20.

The universities advised international students to return early from winter break amid promises of another travel ban by the incoming president.
Many international students were stranded abroad when Trump imposed a travel ban at the start of his first administration.
The president-elect has been vocal about his hardline immigration stance.

Some of the actions Trump has promised to take include a travel ban on people from predominantly Muslim countries and the revocation of student visas of “radical anti-American and antisemitic foreigners”.