12 dead in Ukrainian Black Sea chopper crash

Twelve people died and one barely survived Thursday when a Ukrainian border guard helicopter crashed offshore in the Black Sea, an official said.

The Mi-8 helicopter was carrying three crew members, 10 passengers and two tonnes of equipment to build a border post on Snake Island near the frontier between Ukraine and Romaniad.

The helicopter crashed at around 11:30 a.m. into an island in the Danube delta, said Sergiy Shmorgal, a spokesman for the emergency ministry in the southern port of Odessa, where the helicopter took off.

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