Pakistani Military Helicopter Crashes Killing One
Ankit Gupta - All Headline News Staff Writer Islamabad, Pakistan (AHN) - A Pakistani military helicopter crashed into a dam in the northwestern tribal region on 21st June, killing an army officer and leaving three others missing. Soldiers and paramilitary personnel were aboard the helicopter when it crashed down in dam water at 7:30 a.m., some 10 kilometers west of Bannu. , a major city in the region, police officer Shah Wali Khan said. Three soldiers were rescued by army divers. Police said divers pulled out the body of an army captain, while three soldiers are missing. Considering that the water level in the dam is quite deep, he feared that the missing three soldiers have drowned. The accident happened when the helicopter developed some technical problem and came down into the swirling waters of the dam. Bannu is located close to the restive North Waziristan tribal region, where the Pakistani army is hunting Al-Qaeda linked suspects and their local supporters.
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