Helicopter crash kills 4 soldiers

Four Pakistani soldiers, including the two pilots, were killed when a military helicopter, a Mil Mi 17, crashed in the Northern areas of the country, the Pakistani military said on Saturday. Pakistani army stated, the helicopter crashed due to technical issues during a casualty evacuation operation in the Minimarg area of Gilgit Baltistan, both pilots Major M. Hussain and Co-Pilot Major Ayaz Hussain were killed.
Naik Inziman Alam and Muhammad Farooq were the soldiers also killed during the crash incident, the Pakistani army confirmed to media. The helicopter was carrying a dead soldier’s body, Abdul Qadeer to the Combined Military hospital in Skardu after getting trapped in an avalanche when the crash happened.

This is the latest aviation incident causing death since May this year when a Pakistan International Airlines plane crash-landed on homes in Karachi, that killed 97 people. In August 2015, 12 people were killed when another army chopper crashed in the northwest. In May the same year a Mi-17 army helicopter crashed at a holiday resort in the picturesque hills of Gilgit killing seven people, including two foreign ambassadors.

THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE IMMEDIATE FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND THE PAKISTAN MILITARY