Irish man killed in Indian helicopter crash

An Irish man today died along with three other people when a helicopter crashed on its way to a northern Indian ski resort, police said.

Those killed were John Murphy - it is not yet known where he was from - Plaza S Castano, a Colombian woman, Madhavi Gautam, a local hotel receptionist, and pilot Kishen Tomar, said police officer Khem Chand, when reached by the phone in Manali, a hill resort in Himachal Pradesh state.