WORLD BRIEFING / BRITAIN
Times Wire Reports
A helicopter returning from a North Sea oil platform went down off the northeast coast of Scotland with 16 people on board, and police said at least eight were killed.
Scotland’s Grampian Police said eight bodies had been recovered from the sea and that the search for the other passengers was continuing.
A spokesman for the BP oil company said the helicopter was working for the company and was returning to Britain from an offshore oil field.
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