Military helicopter crash in Azerbaijan kills 14
A military helicopter crashed in Azerbaijan during a training flight on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding two more, Azerbaijani authorities said. It wasnt immediately clear what caused the crash, which the two state agencies are investigating.
- Country:
- Azerbaijan
A military helicopter crashed in Azerbaijan during a training flight on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding two more, Azerbaijani authorities said. The helicopter of Azerbaijan's State Border Guard service crashed on Tuesday morning during a flight over the Garaeybat training ground in the east of Azerbaijan, according to a joint statement of the border guard service and Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General's office. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the crash, which the two state agencies are investigating. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and his wife Mekhriban Aliyeva have extended their condolences to the families of the victims.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
ALSO READ
IFC Issues $20M Azerbaijani Manat Bond to Support MSMEs and Green Projects
Transforming Language Education with a Parallel Corpus for Azerbaijani Arabic Script
Kazakhstan's emergency ministry says 42 people likely dead in Azerbaijan Airlines' plane crash, reports AP.
Mystery Surrounds Azerbaijan Airlines Tragedy
An Azerbaijan Airliner has crashed in the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, reports AP.