A helicopter carrying 16 people was shot down and crashed into the
sea near Libya's capital on Tuesday with at least nine passengers,
including a senior militiaman, confirmed dead, a military official said.
The
aircraft was hit by gunfire shortly before noon and went down near the
Al-Maya area just west of Tripoli, Colonel Mustafa Sharkasi, a
spokesperson for the air force of Libya's Tripoli-based government, told
AFP.
"We have so far recovered nine bodies, including the body of
Colonel Hussein Abu Diyya," a senior officer in the Fajr Libya militia
that controls the capital, he said. "We think that all the passengers
are dead."
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Libya cash chopper shot down
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