 Around the World: Russia
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-03 07:39 Helicopter crash kills nine Nine people were killed yesterday when a helicopter carrying employees of oil firm Gazprom Neft crashed in Russia's far north, Russia's Emergencies Ministry and the company said. "The helicopter crashed as it was coming into land and nine people were killed," a spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry said. The MI-8 helicopter was being operated by Russian carrier UT-Air when the crash occurred in the Yamal-Nenetsk region, near the Arctic Circle, the spokesman said. (China Daily 07/03/2008 page12) |
