Pakistan helicopter carrying foreign diplomats crashes
Military helicopter with 17 people on board, including 11 foreigners, comes down in Gilgit-Baltistan region, army says.
A Pakistani military helicopter carrying foreign diplomats in the mountainous region of Gilgit-Baltistan has crashed, killing six people, the military says.
Two ambassadors and two wives of ambassadors were among those killed in Friday’s crash.
The dead include Norwegian Ambassador Leif Larsen, Philippines Ambassador Domingo Lucenario Jr, and the wives of the Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors to Pakistan.
Dutch ambassador Marcel de Vink and Polish ambassador Andrzej Ananicz were injured in the crash.
The MI-17 helicopter was carrying 17 people, including 11 foreigners, the military’s spokesperson Major-General Asim Bajwa said in an earlier statement.
The 13 survivors had “varying degrees of injuries”.
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An army helicopter has crashed in a mountainous part of northern Pakistan killing six people including the Philippine and Norwegian ambassadors.
It crashed during an emergency landing in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory.
The wives of the Indonesian and Malaysian envoys and two Pakistani pilots also died. They were to attend the opening of a tourism project.
The Pakistani Taliban (TTP) said they were behind the attack, but there is no confirmation of the claim.
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