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3 Officers Die As Army Helicopter Crashes

August 19 2010

India

Three Indian military officers were killed on Wednesday when their helicopter crashed over the Dzukou Valley in the Nagaland-Manipur border area, reports the Press Trust of India.

Two pilots and an army officer, a colonel and two majors, were in a Cheetah helicopter on a routine flight from the army 3 Corps headquarters in Rangapahar to Limakong at the time of the incident, reported Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

An army spokesman said the chopper apparently lost contact with the...

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