Chopper crash kills at least three in Russia’s Chechnya
At least three people have been killed and several others gone missing when a Russian helicopter crashed in Chechnya.
Russian news agencies quoted local authorities as saying that the Mi-8 helicopter belonging to the border guards crashed in the Itum-Kale region in southern Chechnya, near Georgia’s border, on Wednesday.
The chopper went down while preparing to land as its rotor clipped a mountainside amid thick fog, officials said.
Rescuers have retrieved three bodies and found one survivor. The helicopter was believed to be carrying several other people, and they are still unaccounted for.
The twin-engine Mi-8 has been a mainstay of Soviet and Russian aviation since the late 1960s. It also has been widely used worldwide.
On Tuesday, a cargo plane operated by the Russian military crashed in Syria, killing at least 39 people on board. The Russian Defense Ministry said that it had launched an investigation into the incident, which it said was caused by a technical malfunction. It said preliminary data received from the site of the crash, about 500 from the runway, proved that there was no terrorist incentive involved.
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