Russian military helicopter crashes in ChechnyaRuslan Isayev, North Caucasus - An MI-24 Russian combat helicopter crashed in Chechnya. The wreck with two dead crew members was found near the village of Alkhan-Kala in the Groznensky district, said a source from the Russian military base in Khankala.
Military representatives do not rule out the possibility that the helicopter had been shot down, although the investigators are also working on other reasons.
However, Alkhan-kala residents refuse to believe that the helicopter fell near their village. "Yesterday I spent the entire day at home and didn't hear any shots or the sound of a falling chopper," our Prague Watchdog correspondent learnt from Sultan, a local resident.
Sultan heard about a helicopter coming down somewhere but does not know the exact spot. "Had it fallen here, locals would have immediately known about it," he added.
P.S. Chechen resistance sources claimed that the helicopter had been shot down. Russian military representatives at first confirmed it but then they said the helicopter fell as it hit a power cable.
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