Eight policemen were killed in Colombia due to the crash of a helicopter shot down by rebels.

In Colombia, eight policemen were killed and eight as a result of a helicopter crash shot down by rebels. This was announced by President Gustavo Petro on August 21.

"We have sad news about eight dead police officers and eight injured on the helicopter that was supposed to deliver personnel to destroy coca leaf crops in Amalfi," he wrote on the social network X.

It is noted that the 36th front of the "Central Command" of the rebels located in the department of Antioquia is responsible for the helicopter crash.

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Earlier, on August 15, five people, including two pilots, were killed in the crash of an Mi-17 helicopter of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government in Pakistan. It was clarified that the helicopter was transporting humanitarian aid for the rain-affected areas of Bajaur. According to the chief secretary of the province, Shahab Ali Shah, the cause of the crash was bad weather conditions.

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