Three killed as Coast Guard chopper crashes in Porbandar
Porbandar (Gujarat) (PTI): Three crew members were killed after a helicopter of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) crashed during landing at Porbandar airport in Gujarat on Sunday afternoon, police said.
The incident took place at 12.10 pm, Porbandar Superintendent of Police Bhagirathsinh Jadeja said.
The Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) of the ICG with three crew members onboard crashed during landing at the Porbandar airport, he said.
The three crew members were brought out of the chopper and rushed to a hospital in Porbandar in a severely burnt condition, he said.
All the three crew members died at the hospital, Kamala Baug police station's inspector Rajesh Kanmiya said.
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Strong earthquake kills at least 9 people in western China
Beijing (AP): A strong earthquake shook a mountainous region in western China near Nepal on Tuesday morning, killing at least nine people, state media said.
State broadcaster CCTV cited the Ministry of Emergency Management for the death toll but did not give details on the casualties.
The magnitude 7.1 quake struck in a mountainous area in the Tibet region, near the border with Nepal, at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6 miles), the US Geological Survey said.
China's earthquake monitoring agency recorded the magnitude as 6.8. The average altitude in the area around the epicenter is about 4,200 meters (13,800 feet), CCTV said.
The CCTV online report said there were a handful of communities within 5 kilometers of the epicentre, which was 380 kilometers (240 miles) from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
