16 soldiers die, 5 injured in Vietnam's copter crash 

16 soldiers die, 5 injured in Vietnam's copter crash 

Monday, July 7, 2014 7:49 am


 Sixteen people were killed and five injured when a Vietnamese military helicopter crashed in the capital Hanoi early Monday, a top military official said.

“The plane was carrying 21 people and it crashed during a parachute training exercise, killing 16 and injuring five others,” Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan, army deputy commander, told AFP.

The dead and injured were all military personnel, he added.


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