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4 PAK SOLDIERS KILLED IN HELICOPTER CRASH IN POK

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 12/28/2020 11:54:11 AM

Gilgit Baltistan, Dec 27 At least 4 Pakistan Army soldiers including two pilots were killed in a helicopter crash in the Minimarg area of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan. According to the Pakistani Army’s statement, the helicopter crashed due to technical reasons during a casualty evacuation operation in the Minimarg area of Gilgit Baltistan, Geo News reported. Both pilots — Major M. Hussain and Co-Pilot Major Ayaz Hussain, Naik Inzimam Alam, and soldier Muhammad Farooq — were killed in the crash, the army confirmed. The military chopper was evacuating the corpse of a soldier Sepoy Abdul Qadeer to Combined Military Hospital located in Skardu when it crashed.