3 die as Russian helicopter crashes on Arctic island
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A Russian helicopter died Sunday while trying, the surfaces of the remote municipal Barentsburg, Spitzbergen, Norway, in the Arctic islands and killed three. It has been six other people on board the helicopter Mi8, and they were sent to a local hospital for treatment, said Sten Rune Nikolaisen, Norway Rescue Co-ordination Centre Northern Norway. The cause of the accident was not immediately known. Barentsburg was a colony of Russian mining of about 400 people on the Norwegian island of 1920, under a contract that explains the archipelago an international area open to all countries for non-military activities. The islands of Svalbard, about 500 miles north of the Norwegian mainland. “The landing of the helicopter was heading Pad, but suddenly, the weather, and helicopters have a storm in August,” said the official. |