Brovary tragedy: State Emergency Service reports 14 dead, including one child
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has clarified that as a result of the plane crash in Brovary on 18 January, 14 people died; one of them was a child.
Source: press service of the State Emergency Service
Quote: "According to the clarified information, after the identification, 14 dead people were found at the place of the helicopter crash, including 1 child and 9 people who were on board.
25 people were injured (including 11 children), and they were hospitalised (the information is being clarified)."
Details: Rescuers stressed that search and rescue operations are ongoing.
As of 14:00, rescue workers have reported that 17 people, including four children, were killed in the helicopter crash in Brovary.
Updated: Ukraine's Interior Ministry clarified that 10 people were aboard the helicopter.
Background:
- On the morning of 18 January, a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary in Kyiv Oblast, causing a fire.
- The helicopter crash killed the top leadership of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs: Denys Monastyrskyi, Minister of Internal Affairs, Yevhen Yenin, First Deputy Interior Minister, and Yurii Lubkovych.
- Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the President’s Office, said that the helicopter crash in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, occurred during a flight by Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi to one of Ukraine’s hotspots where fighting is ongoing.
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