New Delhi: The wreckage of the Russian helicopter which had gone missing a day earlier was found on Sunday.
The chopper with 22 people on board – 3 crew members and 19 passengers — crashed in the far eastern peninsula of Kamchatka. Search teams found no survivor, state news agency TASS said.
The Mi-8T helicopter had taken off from a base near the Vachkazhets volcano, reported Reuters.
The cause of the crash is yet to be ascertained.
Kamchatka Peninsula, located around 7,100 km east of Moscow, was hit by a cyclone over the weekend which brought strong winds and rain.
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