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Pakistan Helicopter crashes, kills envoy; Taliban claims responsibility

  • Karachi : An Army helicopter crashed in northern Pakistan killing seven people, including Philippine and Norwegian ambassadors

  • Incident happened during an emergency landing in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory

  • Both ambassadors were there to attend an opening of a tourism project

  • First, terrorist group Taliban claimed responsibility of the crash and said their target was Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif

  • Later, Army confirmed it was some technical glitch that crashed helicopter

  • Last time a plane crash had killed one foreign diplomat in 1988 on Pakistan land.

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