Mes: septiembre 2019

(AP) HUALLA-HUALLA, Peru – Rescue specialists on Saturday reached a helicopter that crashed in the southeastern Andes, and there were no survivors among the 14 people on aboard, including eight South Koreans and three Europeans, Peruvian police said. A police commander who went to the crash site, Raul Aybar, told The Associated Press that the aircraft “crashed into the snowy Mama Rosa and exploded.” “Everyone died in the initial impact because everything is burned and scattered,” Aybar said after returning to the nearest city, 영광출장마사지 Ocongate. Another member of the police rescue team, Brig. Roberto Larrea, also told the AP that no one survived. Aybar said operations at the crash site had been suspended until Sunday because of bad weather and darkness. He said temperatures had dropped to 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Peru’s police chief, Gen. Raul Salazar, told the Radioprogramas radio station earlier that searchers found “some parts of the helicopter that have been scattered up to 200 yards by the force of impact.” Authorities said the crashed Sikorsky S-58ET was found at an attitude of roughly 16,000 feet. Police said a Dutchman, a Czech, a Swede, eight Koreans and three Peruvians, including the pilot and co-pilot, were on the helicopter. The South Korean Embassy in Lima said its nationals were exploring a potential hydroelectric project near Mazuco. South Korea’s foreign ministry said three of the Koreans worked for...

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(AP) ATHENS, Greece – Greek police arrested four people Saturday for accidentally causing a fire raging south of Athens and threatening houses. Three firefighters have been injured, one with extensive burns, but no civilian casualties have been reported. Police say the four were doing a welding job at a construction site early Saturday afternoon when a spark hit dry grass and ignited a fire. Strong winds quickly spread the fire which is now ranging on a 12-kilometer front to the west and south of the town of Keratea, 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Athens, burning several houses in the process. At dusk, the 12 airplanes and two helicopters operating in the area had to be withdrawn and the fire is being fought on the ground, with 115 vehicles and over 300 firefighters taking part. A home for the elderly was evacuated and its 42 residents moved to a nearby resort, authorities said. Three smaller fires that also started near Athens late Saturday afternoon have been brought under control. One, in the district of Pallini, just east of the capital, started in dry grass and threatened an ice cream factory, partly burning some outbuildings. Fourteen vans outside the factory went up in flames. Two other fires broke out in the northwest and southeast corners of the southern Greek Peloponnese peninsula, requiring dozens of fire vehicles to rush to the...