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Nine Turkish soldiers, including Lieutenant General Osman Erbas, killed in helicopter crash in Bitlis Updated Mar 04, 2021 | 22:57 IST
Ruling AKP party lawmaker Tolga Agar, who sits on parliament s defence committee, tweeted that Lieutenant General Osman Erbas was among the nine dead. Nine Turkish soldiers killed in helicopter crash in Bitlis
Ankara: Nine Turkish soldiers were killed and four wounded when their military helicopter crashed Thursday in heavy weather in the country s restive southeast, the defence ministry said.
Television images from the crash site showed the ground blanketed in snow and visibility hampered by thick clouds in the mountainous region.
Ruling AKP party lawmaker Tolga Agar, who sits on parliament s defence committee, tweeted that Lieutenant General Osman Erbas was among the dead.
An army helicopter crashed in southeast Turkey on Thursday, killing 11 military personnel and injuring two others, the defence ministry said.
The Cougar-type helicopter crashed near the village of Cekmece, close to the town of Tatvan, in the predominantly Kurdish-populated Bitlis province. It was on its way to Tatvan from the nearby province of Bingol when authorities lost contact with it at 2:25pm (11:25 GMT), the ministry said.
Nine of the victims died at the crash site, while two died of their injuries in hospital, officials said.
The victims included Lieutenant-General Osman Erbas, an army corps commander, said Devlet Bahceli, the leader of Turkey’s main nationalist party, on Twitter.
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