Pakistan helicopter crash kills foreign ambassadors

Norwegian and Philippine ambassadors and other diplomats’ wives among those killed as aircraft crashes into school in Gilgit-Baltistan territory
Pakistani soldiers stand guard outside a military hospital in Gilgit. Photograph: Farman Karim/AFP/Getty Images

Pakistani soldiers gather beside an army helicopter at a military hospital where victims of a helicopter crash were brought for treatment. Photograph: Farman Karim/AFP/Getty Images

Jon Boone in Islamabad-Friday 8 May 2015

Two ambassadors are among seven people killed when a military helicopter crashed into a school in Pakistan’s mountainous north and burst into flames.

Pakistan Helicopter Crash Kills Foreign Ambassadors by Thavam Ratna