Pakistan Military Helicopter Crashes; Four Personnel Killed

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ISLAMABAD, 27 December 2020, (TON):  A military helicopter of Pakistani Army Aviation crashed Saturday in the Minimarg area of Pakistan's Gilgit Baltistan (GB) region, leaving four personnel killed including two pilots and two soldiers. It has been claimed that the helicopter was evacuating the body of martyred soldier Sepoy Qadeer to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Skardu when the incident occurred. However, same could not be confirmed from other sources.

Those who lost thie lives included Major Pilot M. Hussain, Co-Pilot Major Ayaz Hussain, Naik Inzimam Alam and Sepoy Muhammad Farooq

Later, Army team arrived at the crash site and evacuated all the four dead bodies from the wreckage site to Combined Military Hospital in Rawalpindi. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations confirmed the incident.  Later, the dead bodies were dispatched to their native villages.

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