Six killed as rescue helicopter crashes

Six people have been killed in a rescue helicopter crash in a mountainous area of central Italy, officials say. The aircraft came down in thick fog near the Campo Felice ski station after picking up an injured skier. The rescue was not related to last week’s avalanche that engulfed a hotel nearby, killing at least […]

Six people have been killed in a rescue helicopter crash in a mountainous area of central Italy, officials say.
The aircraft came down in thick fog near the Campo Felice ski station after picking up an injured skier.
The rescue was not related to last week’s avalanche that engulfed a hotel nearby, killing at least 15 people.
Rescue teams reached the wreckage “and they found the bodies of the six deceased in the snow”, a police spokesman told the AFP news agency.
The helicopter was taking the injured skier to hospital in L’Aquila, the capital of Abruzzo province.