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- Published: January 18, 2023 14:30
New Delhi: In a tragic incident, a helicopter crashed in Ukraine on Wednesday, resulting in death of more than 15 people.
Reports suggest that 2 Ministers of Ukraine have also perished in the fatal chopper crash.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and his first deputy died in a plane crash in Brovary, they were in a crashed helicopter, according to the Ukrainian police pic.twitter.com/BoJhIHveu4
— Sprintero (@Sprintero20000) January 18, 2023
As a result of a helicopter crash in Brovary Minister and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine died. Emergency Service helicopter crashed at local kindergarten. 16 dead, two of them children. Terrible tragedy. pic.twitter.com/KiKR5ItDoI
— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) January 18, 2023
Ukraine’s interior affairs minister along with his first deputy minister & state secretary are said to have died in the chopper crash. 2 children are also reported dead.
At least 16 people are said to have died in the deadly chopper crash. The helicopter reportedly crashed near a kindergarten school in the suburb of its capital Kyiv.
A total of eight people were travelling in the chopper. It crashed near the suburb of Brovary and bursted into flames.
Ukraine’s police chief informed on Facebook that the chopper belonged to Ukraine’s state emergency service.
After the crash, blaze broke out in the vicinity and it also engulfed the kindergarten. Children & school staff were lifted out of the building but the area around crash site was engulfed in flames. Helicopter wrecakage was also visible at the spot.