{"id":48154,"date":"2025-05-09T17:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48154"},"modified":"2025-05-09T17:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:47:06","slug":"helicopter-crash-in-sri-lanka-kills-six-military-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/helicopter-crash-in-sri-lanka-kills-six-military-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter Crash in Sri Lanka Kills Six Military Personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter crash in Sri Lanka has killed six military personnel, an Air Force official said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A Bell 212 helicopter had crashed into the Maduru Oya reservoir in central Sri Lanka with a dozen armed forces personnel on board.<\/p>\n<p>Six died after they were rescued and rushed to hospital, Sri Lanka Air Force spokesman Group Captain Eranda Geeganage said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The helicopter was assigned to conduct a grappling exercise at a passing-out parade. Four special forces personnel and two Air Force gunmen died of their injuries,&#8221; Geeganage told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>He declined to give details on the possible reason for the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter crash in Sri Lanka has killed six military personnel, an Air Force official said on Friday. A Bell 212 helicopter had crashed into the Maduru Oya reservoir in central Sri Lanka with a dozen armed forces personnel on board. Six died after they were rescued and rushed to hospital, Sri Lanka Air Force &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48156,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48154\/revisions\/48156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}