Helicopter crash kills six in Nigeria

A navy helicopter crashed in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta, killing a state governor and five other people, in the latest air disaster to hit Africa’s most populous nation.

Helicopter crash kills six in Nigeria

A navy helicopter crashed in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta, killing a state governor and five other people, in the latest air disaster to hit Africa’s most populous nation.

Nigeria’s presidency said in a statement that the governor of the central Nigerian state of Kaduna, Patrick Yakowa, died in the crash in Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta.

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