Helicopter crash in north Iraq kills pilot, injures Yazidi lawmaker


  • World
  • Wednesday, 13 Aug 2014

Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier attends a meeting with BMW executives in Mexico City July 17, 2014. REUTERS/Bernardo Montoya

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi army helicopter carrying aid and evacuating displaced members of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq crashed on Tuesday, in an accident that killed the pilot and wounded passengers, a government spokesman said.

A Yazidi member of parliament, Vian Dakheel, was among those injured, the prime minister's military spokesman, Qassim Atta, told a televised news conference.

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