{"id":18847,"date":"2013-01-08T09:46:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/08\/282410\/air-crash-kills-7-in-peru-amazon-jungle\/"},"modified":"2013-01-08T09:46:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:46:37","slug":"air-crash-kills-7-in-peru-amazon-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/air-crash-kills-7-in-peru-amazon-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Air crash kills 7 in Peru Amazon jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Rescue workers at the site of a helicopter crash in Peru (file photo).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>At least seven people, including five US citizens and two Peruvians, have been killed after a BV-234 helicopter crashed into a commercial building in a village located in Peru&#8217;s Amazon jungle, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are seven dead, including five Americans and two Peruvians,\u201d said a local prosecutor, Marcos Ochos following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place on Monday at 2:57 p.m. local time (1957 GMT) in the village of San Juan situated in the jungle region of Ucayali, Ochos added.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Reports say that the helicopter was carrying people working for Petrominerales Ltd., a Canada-based oil and mining company focused on Latin American countries, including Colombia and Peru.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nLocal media said that the helicopter, which was travelling from the eastern city of Pucallpa to Tarapoto, took off from the Pucallpa international airport hours earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Following the deadly crash, Peru\u2019s air transport agency, Corpac issued a statement, saying that the helicopter had been operated by \u201cthe local unit of US based Columbia Helicopters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rescue workers, police officers, and firefighters rushed to the site of the crash and cordoned off the area.<\/p>\n<p>MAM\/HN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>Rescue workers at the site of a helicopter crash in Peru (file photo).<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At least seven people, including five US citizens and two Peruvians, have been killed after a BV-234 helicopter crashed into a commercial building in a village located in Peru&#8217;s Amazon jungle, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are seven dead, including five Americans and two Peruvians,&rdquo; said a local prosecutor, Marcos Ochos following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place on Monday at 2:57 p.m. local time (1957 GMT) in the village of San Juan situated in the jungle region of Ucayali, Ochos added.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Reports say that the helicopter was carrying people working for Petrominerales Ltd., a Canada-based oil and mining company focused on Latin American countries, including Colombia and Peru.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nLocal media said that the helicopter, which was travelling from the eastern city of Pucallpa to Tarapoto, took off from the Pucallpa international airport hours earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Following the deadly crash, Peru&rsquo;s air transport agency, Corpac issued a statement, saying that the helicopter had been operated by &ldquo;the local unit of US based Columbia Helicopters.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Rescue workers, police officers, and firefighters rushed to the site of the crash and cordoned off the area.<\/p>\n<p>MAM\/HN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}