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Urgent: Chopper crash kills 1, injures 9 including 6 Chinese in C. Sulawesi, Indonesia

Xinhua,April 20, 2018 Adjust font size:

JAKARTA, April 20 (Xinhua) -- A helicopter crashed in Marowali Regency of Central Sulawesi province on Friday, leaving one dead, nine wounded, including six Chinese nationals, officials said.

"All the six passengers of the helicopters are the citizens of China," spokesman of the Transport Ministry Bambang Ervan told Xinhua via phone.

An employee of the company operating the chopper was killed in the incident. The pilot and co-pilot as well as another worker of the firm were among the injured, national disaster management agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told Xinhua in a text message. Enditem