Pakistan helicopter carrying foreign diplomats crashes
May 8, 2015
Islamabad, Pakistan – A Pakistani military helicopter carrying foreign diplomats in the mountainous region of Gilgit-Baltistan has crashed, killing six people, the military says. The dead included two ambassadors – Norwegian Ambassador Leif Larsen, Philippines Ambassador Domingo Lucenario Jr, and the wives of the Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors to Pakistan and the helicopter’s two Pakistani pilots. Dutch ambassador Marcel de Vink and Polish ambassador Andrzej Ananicz were injured in the crash.
The MI-17 helicopter was carrying 17 people, including 11 foreigners, the military’s spokesperson Major-General Asim Bajwa said in an earlier statement.