9 dead & 4 injured in Turkish military helicopter crash, search efforts launched in snowy mountain region

At least nine

At least nine soldiers have died and four more were injured after a Cougar military helicopter crashed in southeast Turkey, the country’s defense ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

The chopper took off from the province of Bingol at 1.55pm local time, headed for the province of Bitlis, but contact was lost with the aircraft a half hour later.

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