ROME — Seven bodies were found Saturday in
the wreckage of a helicopter that disappeared in the mountains in northern
Italy two days ago, with no survivors, emergency services said.
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Four Turkish citizens were on board the helicopter
which went missing on Thursday, the Turkish foreign ministry said, while
Italian media reports said two
Lebanese were also on board.
The pilot was Italian, originally from Venice,
according to the ANSA news agency, which reported that the others had been on a
business trip.
“After the discovery on Mount Cusna of the remains
of the aircraft that disappeared on June 9, the unfortunately lifeless bodies
of the seven people on board were found in the wreckage,” Italy’s fire service
announced on Twitter.
The alpine rescue service added on Twitter that “no
survivors have been found”.
In a statement issued on Friday, before the wreckage
was found, the Turkish foreign ministry confirmed four of its citizens were on
board a helicopter that disappeared after leaving the city of Lucca on Thursday.
The Italian Air
Force, fire, and police services were all involved in the search, but the
helicopter went missing in a sparsely populated mountainous area, and bad
weather hampered the first attempts to find it.
In a video posted on Twitter, an unnamed spokesman
for the Italian Air Force on Saturday said that after the wreckage was
confirmed through aerial observations, rescue teams had to go in on foot.
“We went to the place and found everything burned,”
he said, adding that the helicopter was effectively inside a valley.
A spokesman for the
Alpine rescue service had told AFP on
Friday that such a search “is not easy, if a helicopter falls amongst trees, in
this season the branches close over it and it is complicated to see it from the
sky.”
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