LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian navy divers will help search today for two people missing when a helicopter flying from an offshore oil rig crashed into a lagoon in the Nigerian commercial capital of Lagos, a rescue official said.
Rescuers recovered four bodies on Wednesday from the crash of a U.S.-made Sikorsky S-76C+ belonging to the Houston, Texas-based Bristow Group.
Six injured people from the chopper are “responding to treatment” in the hospitals, according to spokesman Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency.
“We are deploying navy divers to join us in the recovery” of two people missing in the accident, Farinloye told The Associated Press today.
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