Guyana Military Helicopter Crash Kills 5 Officers and Leaves 2 Survivors

Guyana Military Helicopter Crash Kills 5 Officers and Leaves 2 Survivors
A Bell 412 helicopter in a file photo. Yudha Arda Nugraha/Shutterstock
The Associated Press
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana—Guyana’s government said Thursday that five military officers aboard a helicopter that crashed near the border with Venezuela have died and two others survived.

The military helicopter had vanished Wednesday about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of the Venezuelan border during bad weather while transporting officers carrying out a routine inspection of troops in the forested area. Searchers found the wreckage Thursday.