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19 killed in Russian helicopter crash

 

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A helicopter has crashed in northern Siberia, with the loss of 19 people on board.

 

Three crew members and 16 passengers died when the Russian-made MI-8 helicopter came down on Friday in bad weather.

 

Two survivors were injured. A third is unhurt.

 

 

Nineteenpeople die in helicoptercrash in northernRussia: Threesurvivorstakento hospitalafterMi-8 carr… https://t.co/8tD6dUnvln

— YohkOrg(@yohk_org) October 22, 2016

 

 

The helicopter was carrying employees of a contractor from oil company Rosneft’s Suzun oilfield.

 

It is part of Russia’s northernmost onshore oil production project.

 

 

 
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