{"id":3306,"date":"2015-11-26T16:58:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2015-11-26T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T17:07:36","slug":"at-least-10-killed-as-russian-helicopter-crashes-in-siberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/at-least-10-killed-as-russian-helicopter-crashes-in-siberia\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 10 killed as Russian helicopter crashes in Siberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MOSCOW (Russia) &#8211; At least 10 people were killed and 15 injured today when a civilian helicopter crashed in Siberia, regional authorities said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mi-8 helicopter, which was transporting 22 passengers and four crew members, crashed outside the town of Igarka in Western Siberia, some 2,800 kilometres (1,750 miles) northeast\u00a0\u00a0of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a Rosneft statement, there were three crew members and 22 passengers on board. It said that 10 people, including three crew members, died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports said the Mi-8 had crashed onto the frozen Yenisei River &#8216;and is lying on the ice&#8217;. &#8216;People are being evacuated,&#8217; a police source <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/siberiantimes.com\/other\/others\/news\/0499-helicopter-crash-horror-in-krasnoyarsk-region-at-least-12-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injured were being taken to Igarka by snowmobile. Two Mi-8 helicopters are heading to the scene with rescuers and doctors onboard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia&#8217;s Emergency Situation Ministry confirmed there were altogether 25 people aboard the helicopter, including three crew members and 22 passengers..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The helicopter was en route to an oilfield in the region when it crashed near the airport of Igarka and was found lying on the bank of the Yenisey River.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Contact with the helicopter was lost just some 15 minutes after take off from Igarka airport, authorities said. The cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yeniseysk transport prosecutors have launched an investigation into the accident, said an official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (Russia) &#8211; At least 10 people were killed and 15 injured today when a civilian helicopter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[190,256,216,357,20],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-accidents","tag-aircraft","tag-crash","tag-europe","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/helicopter-crash-siberia.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-Rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}