Italy copter crash in Iraq kills 4

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Italy copter crash in Iraq kills 4

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 Posted: 3:36 AM EDT (0736 GMT)

ROME, Italy -- An Italian army

helicopter has crashed in Iraq, killing four people aboard, Italy's military said Tuesday.

The AB-412 helicopter crashed overnight about 8 miles (13

km) southeast of Nasiriya, the southern Iraqi city where Italy's 3,000 troops are based, the military said in a statement,

according to The Associated Press.

The cause was not immediately known.

The helicopter was returning from the Kuwaiti international

airport and had stopped to refuel at Camp Buehring, also in Kuwait, AP reported.

Radio contact was lost soon after the helicopter took off

from the camp, the Italian statement said.

A rescue team found the wreckage at dawn in the desert close

to the Tallill air base in Iraq near Nasiriya, AP reported.

The military said it was investigating the cause of the

crash.

Italy's military contingent is the fourth largest in Iraq after the United States, Britain and South Korea.

The helicopter was the third

aircraft to go down in Iraq within a week.

An Iraqi air force plane with

five people aboard crashed Monday while

on a reconnaissance and surveillance mission in Iraq's eastern Diyala province, the U.S. military said. The four

Americans and one Iraqi aboard were presumed dead, said a U.S. military spokesman in Iraq.

Last Thursday, an OH-58

helicopter was shot down by small arms fire near

the town of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, killing both American soldiers on board.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/31/iraq.italy.crash/index.html

 

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