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19 killed in Russian helicopter crash

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19 killed in Russian helicopter crash
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Three crew members and 16 passengers died when the Russian-made MI-8 helicopter came down on Friday in bad weather.

A helicopter has crashed in northern Siberia, with the loss of 19 people on board.

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Three crew members and 16 passengers died when the Russian-made MI-8 helicopter came down on Friday in bad weather.

Two survivors were injured. A third is unhurt.

Nineteenpeople die in helicoptercrash in northernRussia: Threesurvivorstakento hospitalafterMi-8 carr… https://t.co/8tD6dUnvln

— YohkOrg(@yohk_org) October 22, 2016
The helicopter was carrying employees of a contractor from oil company Rosneft’s Suzun oilfield.

It is part of Russia’s northernmost onshore oil production project.

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