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A Lebanese army helicopter crashed during a training mission in a forest east of Beirut on Wednesday night, killing two crew members and wounding one, the army said.
The army, in a terse statement, said the helicopter crashed near the mountain town of Hammana. It gave no further details.
A fatal army helicopter crashed during a training mission in the eastern Beirut Forest that left two crew members dead and one injured.
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Lebanon is in the grips of the worst economic crisis in its modern history and the army has been severely affected. The nearly four-year meltdown is rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by the country’s ruling class.
The economic meltdown is putting unprecedented pressure on the U.S.-backed army’s operational abilities, wiping out soldiers’ salaries and wrecking morale.