Eighteen people are dead after a Russian-made Mi-8 military transport helicopter crashed in the volatile province of Chechnya.Earlier, the Russian military prosecutor's office told CNN that 14 paratroopers and three crew members were killed when the helicopter went down.
The craft, a Russian-made Mi-8, was part of a three-helicopter team providing reinforcements to help commandos conducting a special operation in the restive region of Chechnya, near the town of Shatoi.
A spokesman for the military prosecutor's office told Reuters, "At the present time the death toll is 18 people -- the crew and troops."
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