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12 missing in chopper crash

A helicopter belonging to Ukraine's border guards crashed off an island in the Black Sea yesterday and the fate of 12 of its 13 passengers was still unknown, the Emergencies Ministry said.

Ministry spokesman Ihor Krol said one passenger aboard the Mi-8 helicopter, a military workhorse in post-Soviet states, had been rescued off Poludenniy island near the port city of Odessa.