Helicopter crash in Russia kills 11
Afp, Moscow
At least 11 people, most of them high-ranking officers, died in a military helicopter crash near the Russian city of Vladikavkaz, officials said yesterday. The Mi-8 transport helicopter crashed late Monday in a forest south of Vladikavkaz, in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region. "Eleven people died and four have been hospitalised -- one in serious condition, one in less serious condition," Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky, an aide to Russia's air force commander, said on NTV television. "The fate of one more serviceman is being checked". Other officials were quoted by Russian news agencies as saying 12 people had been confirmed dead.
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