Two dead in crash of German police helicopter

Baku. 26 February. REPORT.AZ/ Two crew members on a German police helicopter died when their aircraft crashed late Thursday in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, Report informs citing dpa.

A third man was hospitalized with serious injuries.

The three crew members were the only occupants of the Eurocopter 135, which went down around 8 pm (1900 GMT) outside Bimoehlen, 50 kilometres north of Hamburg.

The helicopter crashed 20 metres from a road and a few hundred metres from a football pitch, which was in use at the time.

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