Helicopter crash: four US Air Force crew killed in Norfolk

Police investigating if ammunition carried on board the aircraft poses any risk to the public

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FOUR people were killed when a US military helicopter crashed on the east coast of England during a training exercise yesterday evening.

The aircraft was flying from a US airbase at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk and had been taking part in a low-level flying exercise when it came down in marshland near the Norfolk village of Cley-next-the-Sea. A Pentagon official in Washington confirmed that the four crew members were presumed dead.

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