- BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) -- All
nine people on board died when a US military UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter
was forced to make an emergency landing near the restive Iraqi town of
Fallujah, US Brigadier General Mark Kimmit said.
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- "There were no survivors," Kimmit, the coalition's
deputy director of operations, told reporters.
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- "There were nine personnel aboard the aircraft.
We are working under the presumption they are all American soldiers,"
he added.
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