The ambassadors for Norway and the Philippines were among six people killed today after a helicopter crashed onto a school in northern Pakistan – with the Taliban claiming they downed it as part of a plot to kill Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Leif H. Larsen, the Norwegian envoy, and Domingo D. Lucenario Jr, of the Philippines, were killed along with the wives of the Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors, as well as the helicopter’s two pilots.
The Pakistani Taliban issued a statement claiming they had shot down the helicopter with an anti-aircraft missile – but the army have denied this, and indicated the cause was a technical fault.
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