Pakistan helicopter crash kills Norwegian, Philippine ambassadors


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  • Saturday, 09 May 2015

Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force, enquires Malaysian Ambassador Hasrul Sani Mujtabar about his health at the CMH hospital in Gilgit, Pakistan, in handout picture received on May 8, 2015. REUTERS/Pakistan Air Force/Handout

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistan military helicopter carrying diplomats to inspect a tourism project crashed on Friday killing seven people, including the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines and the wives of the Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was travelling to the mountainous northern region of Gilgit on a separate aircraft when the accident happened. He returned to Islamabad, his office said.

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