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5 die in chopper crash

A woman who gave birth aboard a medical helicopter and her newborn were killed, along with three others, when the craft crashed in bad weather on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, French officials said yesterday.

President Nicolas Sarkozy and Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie expressed their condolences to the families of the victims, who included the helicopter's pilot, the co-pilot and a doctor.