Six people killed in Pakistan helicopter crash, security sources say

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At least six people were killed when a charter helicopter crashed in northern Pakistan on Saturday, security sources said.The two sources,
who declined to be named as they were not authorised to speak publicly, said the helicopter was chartered by a private company in northern
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Reuters reported.It crashed shortly after take-off in the volatile North Waziristan area near the Afghan
border.Around 14 passengers were on board, including Russian pilots, the sources said, adding that eight people were injured in the crash
and hospitalised nearby.Pakistan’s armed forces and the civilian aviation sector have suffered several air accidents in the past decade
In 2022, a military helicopter on a training exercise crashed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing both its pilots, read the report.A Pakistan
International Airlines Airbus jet crashed into a crowded residential district of the southern city of Karachi in 2020, killing most of the
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