Three dead, one injured in UN helicopter crash

A helicopter from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic crash-landed on Friday, causing the death of three people with one other person injured.

The crash occurred as the chopper was landing in the western town of Bouar, MINUSCA chief, Mankeur Ndiaye, wrote in a tweet.

The tweet reads: “It is with immense sorrow that I have learned of the crash of a Senegalese combat helicopter as it was landing at Bouar, leading to three deaths and one injured.”