Smoke billows from the scene of the helicopter crash, at Naltar in Gilgit, Pakistan on May 8, 2015. (Inset) Burhan Muhammad. -EPA/AFP filepic
JAKARTA: An Indonesian ambassador who was on a Pakistani military helicopter that crashed this month killing two other foreign envoys died Tuesday after battling severe burn injuries, Indonesia’s foreign minister said.
Ambassador Burhan Muhammad, 58, was aboard the military helicopter, along with his wife and a delegation of ambassadors when it crashed on May 8 and set a school building ablaze in the Gilgit area of northern Pakistan.
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