Two killed in Ireland helicopter crash

Two people on board a small single-engine helicopter were killed Tuesday after their aircraft crashed into a farm building in central Ireland, said a statement by Irish police.

AFP reports that the aircraft crashed onto the roof of a pig-farm outhouse near Mullingar, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Dublin, around 15:30 GMT.

“Two people on board the aircraft were pronounced deceased at the scene,” said the police statement.

One of the victims was an Irish male aged in his 40s, while the other is “understood to be from Eastern Europe” and is also in his 40s, said the police.

The incident involved a “single-engine helicopter” said the Air Accident Investigation Unit, the authority that investigates serious air incidents in Ireland.

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