ISLAMABAD, Dec. 27, 2020 (BSS/Xinhua) – A helicopter of Pakistani army
crashed in the country’s north Gilgit Baltistan (GB) region, leaving four
people including two pilots and two soldiers killed, an army statement said
early Sunday.
The helicopter of army aviation crashed on Saturday due to technical
reasons when it was evacuating body of a soldier killed earlier to a military
hospital in the GB region, the military’s media wing Inter-Services Public
Relations said in the statement.
A pilot and co-pilot, both of major rank were killed along with two
soldiers belonging to different areas of the country, the statement added.
No loss of life was reported at the ground by the military.
A local source from GB told Xinhua that the incident happened on Saturday
afternoon in a remote valley with no residential settlement on ground.
The source added that military teams arrived at the crash site following
the accident and recovered the bodies from the wreckage of the completely
destroyed helicopter.