{"id":49202,"date":"2025-05-24T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=49202"},"modified":"2025-05-24T17:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:45:37","slug":"three-killed-in-thai-police-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/three-killed-in-thai-police-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Killed in Thai Police Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people died when a police helicopter crashed and burst into flames in south central Thailand on Saturday, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Bell 212 aircraft belonging to the Kanchanaburi Police Aviation Unit came down near a village in Prachuap Khiri Khan province.<\/p>\n<p>Two pilots and a mechanic on board died, according to a statement by the Royal Thai Police.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue workers told AFP that firefighters had extinguished the fire, but the cause of the crash is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement the police expressed condolences and said police chief Kitrat Panphet had ordered an immediate investigation and compensation to the families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people died when a police helicopter crashed and burst into flames in south central Thailand on Saturday, according to officials. The Bell 212 aircraft belonging to the Kanchanaburi Police Aviation Unit came down near a village in Prachuap Khiri Khan province. Two pilots and a mechanic on board died, according to a statement by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49202","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\/49202","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=49202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49203,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49202\/revisions\/49203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}