Four dead in Darfur helicopter crash

A helicopter contracted to UN-led peacekeepers crashed in Sudan's Darfur region on Monday, killing all four crew members, after being fired at, the Sudanese police said. The helicopter was contracted by the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) to carry food to a force team site in South Darfur state and came under fire near Kalma camp, a police official said.
"A helicopter hired by UNAMID was shot at from Kalma camp," Major-General Hashim Osman, the assistant director-general for security and criminal investigations, said. The helicopter crashed close to Kalma camp, a sprawling hut-city for internally displaced people, shortly after taking off from Nyala airport laden with two tonnes of supplies, the state capital of South Darfur.