Chopper hit power line before crash: ISPR
General Officer Commanding of Jessore area Maj Gen Rafiqul Islam and pilot Lt Col Md Shahidul Islam were killed as their helicopter crashed after running into power lines in Tangail on Monday.
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Published :
09 Mar 2009, 05:53 AM
Updated :
12 Aug 2022, 12:44 PM
Dhaka, Mar 9 (bdnews24.com)—General Officer Commanding of Jessore area Maj Gen Rafiqul Islam and pilot Lt Col Md Shahidul Islam were killed as their helicopter crashed after running into power lines in Tangail on Monday.
Another army officer, named as Maj Saif, was injured and has been taken to Dhaka Combined Military Hospital, said Tangail police.
The chopper was travelling from Jessore to Mymensingh when it went down near Elanga at 7.50am, said an ISPR release.
Gen Rafiqul was to pick up the GOC of the 19th Division in Mymensingh en route to a conference at army headquarters in Dhaka, said the statement released around 11.30am.
"The helicopter crashed after hitting electric wires," it said.
District police chief Abdul Mannan had earlier told bdnews24.com the chopper crashed into a pond near Rouha Primary School.
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