U.N. Copter Crashes, Killing All 24 Aboard
From Times Wire Reports
A U.N. helicopter crashed and burned on a remote hillside in Sierra Leone, killing all 24 peacekeepers, aid workers and others on board. The cause was unknown.
A passenger manifest showed the victims were 14 Pakistani peacekeepers, a Pakistani police officer, a U.N. volunteer from Ghana, three Sierra Leone citizens, a Tanzanian working for the International Red Cross, a Ugandan and the three Russian crew members.
None of the nearly 12,000 U.N. peacekeepers in Sierra Leone is known to have been attacked since the civil war ended in 2002.
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