A Pakistani military helicopter carrying diplomats to the north of the country made a crash landing on Friday, killing the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines as well as the wives of the Indonesian and Malaysian envoys, an army spokesman said. According to dpa, two pilots and a crew member were also killed when the helicopter carrying dignitaries made the crash landing in the Naltar valley, where Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was to inaugurate a chairlift at a ski resort. The ambassadors of the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Malaysia and Indonesia were injured in the crash, said Pakistani army spokesman Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa. Two more helicopters flying dignitaries to the event landed safely, he said. A plane carrying Sharif to the area diverted to Islamabad after the crash, the prime minister's office said.
