Four people dead after helicopter crashes on way to Indian oil rig

A helicopter carrying employees of an Indian oil company to an off-shore rig in the Arabian Sea has crashed, killing four people and leaving another three missing, the navy said.

The helicopter was carrying two pilots and five employees of the state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Commission from a Mumbai airfield to the oil rig when it disappeared on Saturday, prompting a search operation, navy spokesman Capt. D. Sharma said.