Armenian Emergencies Ministry presented details of Russian helicopter  crash

ArmInfo. The Ministry of  Emergency Situations of Armenia presented details of the crash of the  Russian helicopter.

As the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia reported earlier,  on November 9, at 6:39 local time, the department's control panel  received a signal that a Russian helicopter fell into a ravine by the  road leading from Yeraskh community to Paruyr Sevak village and was  caught in fire. The operational group of the Rescue Department of the  Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia and three  rescue and fire brigades left for the scene of the incident.

"It turned out that a Russian Mi-24 helicopter fell in a field 2 km  from the road leading to the village of Paruyr Sevak and caught fire.  According to preliminary data, two people died. The fire was  localized at 7.48pm, extinguished at 8.11pm ",  the Ministry of  Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia noted.

ArmInfo was unable to obtain official information on the reasons for  the crash of the Russian Air Force helicopter at the time of  publication. The media circulated information that the helicopter was  shot down from the territory of Nakhijevan (Azerbaijan).