Border police helicopter crashes during rescue operation in Gudauri
Police are studying details of the accident, with additional information to be made available to public later. Photo: MIA.
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A Georgian border police helicopter on a rescue operation in the winter resort town of Gudauri in the north of the country lost control and crashed in a ravine on Friday, th Georgian Interior Ministry said.
The MIA said the helicopter had been carrying rescuers of the Emergency Management Service and first aid responders called to assist paragliders who had ended up in the ravine earlier.
Police are studying details of the accident, with additional information to be made available to public later.
One person in still missing after a car accident that occurred on the road leading to Georgia's iconic mountainous region of Tusheti on July 27. Six people, including a minor and a driver, died as a truck fell into a ravine en route to the village of Omalo in Tusheti region.
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