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1st LD: 4 killed in military chopper crash in southern Vietnam

Xinhua, January 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

Four people were killed after a military helicopter crashed in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City on Wednesday, local online VNExpress reported.

Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of staff of the Vietnam People's Army, was quoted as saying that news from Regiment 917, Air Division 370 of the military Air Defense, reported that four people aboard all died.

Tuan said the military helicopter UH 1 departed from Tan Son Nhat Airport in HCM City at 7:00 a.m. local time on a training mission, but eight minutes later it lost contacts in Binh Chanh district of HCM City.

Search and rescue work was underway, he added. Endi