A Pakistan military helicopter crashes on Friday killing all the six people on board, including the ambassadors of
Norway and the Philippines and the wives of the
ambassadors of Malaysia and Indonesia.
The army authority said the helicopter was carrying diplomats to the
launch of projects in northern Pakistan when crashed.
Reports say Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was traveling to the
mountainous northern region of Gilgit on a separate
aircraft to launch two projects when the accident
happened and he returned to Islamabad.
Military spokesman Asim Bajwa said in a Twitter post
that as well as the four foreigners, the two pilots were
killed.
He said the ambassadors of Poland and the Netherlands
were among the injured.
Media said 11 foreigners and six Pakistanis were on
board the MI-17, which crashed into a school Gilgit and
caught fire.
Media said five foreigners and three Pakistanis were
killed. Bajwa was not immediately available for comment.
He did not say why the aircraft had crashed.
Pakistani Taliban militants said they had shot down the
helicopter with a shoulder-launched missile adding they
had been hoping to shoot down Sharif's aircraft.
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