Ukraine says 16 killed in helicopter crash, including interior minister

Ukraine says 16 killed in helicopter crash, including interior minister
Site of a helicopter falling on civil infrastructure buildings in Brovary

KYIV (Reuters) – Sixteen people including Ukraine’s interior minister and other senior ministry officials were killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed outside Kyiv in the town of Brovary, the national police chief said.

The governor of the Kyiv region said earlier on Wednesday that a helicopter crashed near a nursery and a residential building earlier on Wednesday.

Two children were among the dead and 10 of them were in hospital, officials said

(Reporting by Max Hunder; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Timothy Heritage)

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