The search and rescue operation ended in Brovary: the final number of victims is known

, 19:54, 18.01.2023
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As a result of the helicopter crash, 25 people were injured, including 11 children. In Browary, at 15:45, search and rescue operations at the crash site of the State Medical Rescue helicopter...

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The search and rescue operation ended in Brovary: the final number of victims is known

Brovary near Kyiv. The helicopter crashed near the kindergarten. The leadership of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine was killed

As a result of the helicopter crash, 25 people were injured, including 11 children.

In Browary, at 15:45, search and rescue operations at the crash site of the State Medical Rescue helicopter were completed. According to final figures, 14 people died as a result of the plane crash, including 1 child. This was reported by the press service of the State Rescue Service of Ukraine.

At 15:45, search and rescue operations in Browary ended. In total, 14 people were killed, including 1 child, and 25 people were injured, including 11 children. Recall that the deaths of 3–4 children were immediately reported, but after identifying body fragments, law enforcement determined that it was one child, rescuers add.

Recall that on the morning of January 18, in Brovary, Kyiv region, a helicopter of the State Emergency Service crashed near a kindergarten and a residential building. There were 9 people on board, including the management of the Ministry of the Interior. Initially, 17 people were reported dead.

The initial version of the crash has not yet been released. Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said that “all possible versions of the accident” are currently being considered. The preparatory investigation is entrusted to SBU investigators.

“Lighted up in the sky”: eyewitnesses told the details

Local residents of Browary said that the rotorcraft seemed to catch fire in the air and only then fell into a kindergarten.

Locals told about this in the comments of TSN.ua and Telegram channels.

One of the eyewitnesses of the consequences of the tragedy in Browary described what she saw: “Part of the rotorcraft is still hanging on the roof of the entrance. As far as is known, it fell on the house first. The second part of the helicopter fell next to the kindergarten… The victims are still lying covered in the streets.”

“We live next to the yard where the helicopter fell. My sister, who was going to the store at that moment, saw that during the fall, still in the sky, this rotorcraft was already on fire,” one of the inhabitants of Brovary told.

Other local residents whose homes the rotorcraft flew over also confirm that it caught fire in the sky.

“The avenue of love was free, I could sit there, but he was walking around, I was walking the little ones to school and kindergarten, they heard everything,” writes a resident of Browary on the local Telegram channel.

Others note that in the morning, a thick fog hung over the city, as a result of which the pilot simply could not see where the plane landed.

Locals also say the sound of the helicopter was unstable, “you could hear something was wrong with it.”

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