Helicopter with 11 foreigners crashes on school in Pakistan, 6 fatalities

The ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines, Leif H. Larsen and Domingo D. Lucenario Jr were among six people killed Friday when the helicopter carrying them crashed into a school in northern Pakistan, Major-General Asim Bajwa said in his tweet.

The convoy of three helicopters was carrying a delegation of foreign diplomats and their aides to Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan territory, which is part of the disputed Kashmir region.

One of the helicopters crashed on a school in northern Pakistan, the army said, warning that casualties could rise.

The nationalities of the foreigners are currently being investigated.

"It was a diplomatic trip with members of 37 countries in total," the media is quoting one of the passengers as saying, without disclosing his name, addding that the school had caught fire after the crash.

"We have been told to send in as many ambulances as we can because the situation there is 'urgent'," said a senior official.

The injured were being air lifted to a military hospital in Gilgit, the region's administrative capital, some 50km to the south-west, added another senior local police official.