Police helicopter crash in deep south injures seven officers

Thai police helicopter Eurocopter EC155 in Khon Khaen. Image: Alec Wilson.
Seven police officers were injured, four who included three pilots seriously, after the Bell 121 helicopter made an emergency landing amid thunderstorm but crashed into a dense jungle in the Balahala forest in Yala province yesterday evenning.
The No 2223 police helicopter was in its way back to a border police hill base in Balahala forest in Bannang Sata district.
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