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Two killed in Iran police helicopter crash
[Dawn] An Iranian news agency is reporting that the pilot and co-pilot of a police helicopter have been killed in a crash in southeast Iran.The report by the semiofficial Fars agency says the helicopter crashed midday Friday noon after it hit a telecommunications tower. The craft was scheduled to land at the southeastern Iranian town of Khash in Sistan-Balochistan province. The report said the tower was located on a base of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. The area has been a scene of frequent festivities between Iranian forces and drug pushers as well as a Sunni turban group, Jundallah, which has waged a long insurgency in the remote province, which borders Pakistain and Afghanistan. Posted by: Fred 2011-12-24 |
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