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A helicopter crash in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region has killed all 18 people on board, the regional emergency services said in a statement on Saturday.

“At 10:20 a.m. (0320 GMT) on August 4, 2018, an Mi-8 helicopter performed a hard landing in Turukhansk district 2 kilometers from the village of Igarka,” the statement read.

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