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Copter crash kills 2 Cambodian military generals

By Sopheng Cheang
Published July 14, 2014 10:34am ET
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Copter crash kills 2 Cambodian military generals
Rescue workers gather around a part of a crashed helicopter retrieved from a pond, a site of an helicopter crash in Prey Sar village at the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 14, 2014. A Cambodian military helicopter crashed during a training mission south of the capital on Monday, killing five people on board, police said.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith) | Heng Sinith

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Two generals who led the helicopter unit of Cambodia’s air force were killed in a crash Monday, along with two pilots, police said. Defense Minister Tea Banh, who rushed to the crash site in a muddy pond south of the capital, said a fifth person on the chopper was seriously injured.

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