ATHENS, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Two people died and two were rescued after a helicopter crashed off the Greek island of Samos in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday during efforts to extinguish a wildfire, Greek national broadcaster ERT reported.
The four persons on board the ER-MHY (Mi- 8 MTV-1) type helicopter were three foreign nationals (from Romania and Moldova) and a Greek, according to an e-mailed press release from the Fire Brigade.
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