Civilian helicopter crashes in Kazakhstan

  28 January 2016    Read: 1305
Civilian helicopter crashes in Kazakhstan
A helicopter carrying a sick child has crashed in Kazakhstan killing all five people on board, the official representative of the Emergencies Committee of the Interior Ministry of Kazakhstan Ruslan Imankulov said.
The wreckage of the helicopter was found at about 08:20 local time on Thursday, according to Imankulov.

"All people on board the helicopter were killed," the representative said.

Earlier, an operator of a regional Emergencies Ministry hotline told RIA Novosti that three bodies had been found at the site of the helicopter crash.

The UP-MD 600-N civil helicopter left the town of Usharal in the southeastern Almaty Region of Kazakhstan on Wednesday afternoon, to deliver a sick child to a regional hospital.

Apart from the child and the mother, there were two medics and the pilot on board the helicopter.

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