PHILLIPINES AND NORWEGIAN AMBASSADORS TO PAKISTAN KILLED IN HELICOPTER CRASH

The Norwegian and Phillipines Ambassador to Pakistan together with the wives of the Ambassadors of Maylasia and Indonesia were killed when a Pakistani army helicopter carrying foreign dignitaries crash landed in the northern part of the country.
The army's spokesman, Maj. General Asim Bajwa tweeted that the M-17 helicopter was forced to make emergency landing.
The helicopter's two pilots and crew member were also killed, however, the Dutch and Polish Ambassadors survived the crash with varying degrees of injury.
The foreign dignitaries were on their way to the northern village of Naltar where the Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif was to attend a  public ceremony to inaugurate the newly installed chair-lift at a ski-resort.
The Prime Minister was in his own plane en-route to Naltar when the news of the crash was conveyed to him according to a statement from the Prime Minister's office.
It said Sharif returned to Islamabad in the wake of the crash.