Helicopter with 4 soldiers on board disappears in N Tunisia

TUNIS, June 8– Tunisian Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that it had lost contact with a military helicopter with four soldiers on board. The ministry said in a statement that “all contact had been lost since Wednesday evening when the helicopter was carrying out a night flight mission in the region of Cap Sirat in Bizerte Province in northern Tunisia.”

TUNIS, June 8 (Xinhua) – – Tunisian Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that it had lost contact with a military helicopter with four soldiers on board.

The ministry said in a statement that “all contact had been lost since Wednesday evening when the helicopter was carrying out a night flight mission in the region of Cap Sirat in Bizerte Province in northern Tunisia.”

The ministry didn’t specify the nature of this mission, nor provide further details in the statement.

It indicated that all land, sea and air resources had been mobilized, in coordination with the services of the country’s Interior Ministry, to conduct a large-scale operation to determine the location of the helicopter and the condition of its crew. Enditem