MOSCOW, Jan 18 Fourteen people died, 25 others were injured As a result of a plane crash in Brovary, Kyiv region, the Ukrainian state emergency service said on Wednesday.
«In total, 14 people died, including one child, 25 people were injured, including 11 children,» the agency said in a Telegram channel.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that search and rescue operations were completed at the crash site of the helicopter.
A helicopter belonging to the Ukrainian state emergency service crashed on Wednesday morning near a kindergarten in Brovary in the Kyiv region. There were nine people on board, including Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky, his first deputy Yevgeny Yenin, state secretary of the department Yuri Lubkovich and their assistants. They all died. Adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Anton Gerashchenko, said that sabotage, malfunction of equipment, violation of safety rules are considered as the causes of the helicopter crash. Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police to find out all the circumstances of the helicopter crash.
According to the command of the Ukrainian Air Force, the crashed Super Puma helicopter is one of the ones previously transferred by France to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the state emergency service.
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