Five people killed in helicopter crash near Tuscany in Italy (updated)

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11/06/2022 12:54

(Adds regional governor, details)
    ROME, June 11 (Reuters) - Five people were killed after a
helicopter crash in Italy, a regional governor said on Saturday,
and two passengers were still missing two days after the
aircraft vanished from radar screens.
    Eugenio Giani, the governor of the Tuscany region, wrote on
Facebook the helicopter crashed in a mountain area at the border
between Tuscany and the Emilia Romagna region. The bodies of the
five dead were found on Saturday.
    The helicopter took off on Thursday from Lucca in Tuscany
and was heading towards the northern city of Treviso when it
disappeared from radar screens after hitting bad weather above a
hilly, wooded area.
    Seven people were aboard the helicopter, including four
Turkish businessmen working for Eczacibasi Consumer Products, a
subsidiary of the major Turkish industrial group, Eczacibasi
 ECZYT.IS . They had been attending a paper technologies fair in
Italy, the company said in a statement.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N2XX2FB
    According to Lebanese state news agency NNA, the other two
passengers were Lebanese.

 (Reporting by Angelo Amante; Editing by David Clarke and Clelia
Oziel)
 ((Angelo.Amante@thomsonreuters.com;))