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All 24 people on board a United Nations helicopter are dead after it crashed in eastern Sierra Leone, UN officials say.
The bodies of all the victims were later found at the site of the crash, near the town of Yengema.
There were three Russian crew and 21 passengers on board, many of them aid workers.
The Russian-built Mi-8 helicopter was carrying members of the UN peacekeeping mission and had taken off from the capital Freetown, bound for Yengema.
At least 14 of the passengers were Pakistani nationals, and there were thought to be one Bangladeshi policeman and two non-UN civilian staff also on board.
There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash.
The UN has deployed about 11,000 peacekeepers in Sierra Leone since the country's 1991-2002 civil war.
There have been no known attacks on UN officials since the fighting stopped.
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The bodies of all the victims were later found at the site of the crash, near the town of Yengema.
There were three Russian crew and 21 passengers on board, many of them aid workers.
The Russian-built Mi-8 helicopter was carrying members of the UN peacekeeping mission and had taken off from the capital Freetown, bound for Yengema.
At least 14 of the passengers were Pakistani nationals, and there were thought to be one Bangladeshi policeman and two non-UN civilian staff also on board.
There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash.
The UN has deployed about 11,000 peacekeepers in Sierra Leone since the country's 1991-2002 civil war.
There have been no known attacks on UN officials since the fighting stopped.
BBC Read More
