Flags at half-mast to mourn victims of Gudauri border police helicopter crash
Rescue and search operations at the scene lasted for several hours, the bodies of the deceased were retrieved in the morning. Photo: The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.
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Georgian national flags are flying at half-mast on all Government buildings across the country today in mourning of eight people who were onboard the border police helicopter that crashed in the winter resort town of Gudauri in the north on Friday.
Sending his condolences to the families of the crew, rescuers and first aid responders who died in the crash, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili declared July 30 a day of mourning.
Photo: The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.
The helicopter on a rescue operation in Gudauri lost control and crashed in a ravine on Friday. 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.
There were four crew members onboard the helicopter, as well as two rescuers from the emergency management service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and two medics from the emergency coordination and emergency assistance centre.
Rescue and search operations at the scene lasted for several hours, the bodies of the deceased were retrieved in the morning.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday expressed “deep sorrow” over the deaths of the crew, rescuers and first aid responders onboard the border police helicopter that crashed in the winter resort town of Gudauri in the north on Friday, and declared July 30 a day of mourning across the country.
Eight people have been confirmed to have been onboard the border police helicopter that crashed in the winter resort town of Gudauri in the north of Georgia on Friday, the Georgian Interior Ministry has said.
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.
Over 200 people including tourists who were stuck in Georgia's mountainous region of Tusheti for several days have been evacuated. The rescue operation has been underway since yesterday to bring everyone to Telavi, a nearby town in the eastern Kakheti region, after the heavy rain damaged the road leading to Tusheti.
Foreign embassies and dignitaries on Saturday extended their condolences over the deaths of the crew, rescuers and first aid responders onboard the Georgian border police helicopter that crashed in the winter resort town of Gudauri in the north on Friday.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia on Monday dismissed allegations by several opposition-minded TV channels that a technical fault had caused the deadly helicopter crash in Gudauri in the country’s north that claimed eight lives on Friday.
The pilots and rescuers onboard the border police helicopter that crashed near the winter resort town of Gudauri in Georgia’s north on Friday will be buried with full military honours, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Monday.