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Pakistan

Ambassadors of Norway and Philippines killed in helicopter crash

The aircraft carrying them has crashed into a school in northern Pakistan.

THE AMBASSADORS OF Norway and the Philippines were among six people killed today when the helicopter carrying them crashed into a school in northern Pakistan, the army said in a tweet.

Leif H. Larsen, the Norwegian envoy, and Domingo D. Lucenario Jr of the Philippines were killed along with the wives of the Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors, as well as the helicopter’s two pilots.

- © AFP, 2015

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