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التاريخ: 02 صفر 1434 هـ الموافق 15 ديسمبر 2012 م .
المكان: نيجيريا
الضحايا: 6 أشخاص


لقي حاكم ولاية كادونا النيجيرية باتريك إبراهيم ياكوا مصرعه اليوم في تحطم طائرة هليكوبتر في ولاية بايلسا في جنوب نيجيريا. وقال المتحدث باسم شرطة بايلسا في تصريح له : " إن طائرة هليكوبتر سقطت في منطقة اوجبيا كريك لكنه لم يكن لديه تفاصيل عمن كانوا على متنها أو أي إصابات".
من جهته أكد مساعد لياكوا أن حاكم ولاية كادونا باتريك إبراهيم ياكوا قتل اليوم في تحطم طائرة هليكوبتر في ولاية بايلسا في جنوب نيجيريا.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A navy helicopter crashed Saturday in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, killing a state governor and five other people, in the latest air disaster to hit Africa's most populous nation, officials said.
Nigeria's presidency said in a statement that the governor of the central Nigerian state of Kaduna, Patrick Yakowa, died in the helicopter crash in Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta.

The former national security adviser, General Andrew Azazi, also died in the crash, the statement said. Azazi was fired in June amid growing sectarian violence in Nigeria, but maintained close ties with the government. The other victims were aides to Yakowa and Azazi and the two helicopter pilots, it said.

President Goodluck Jonathan's spokesman, Reuben Abati, said in a statement that their loss was "extremely painful to the entire nation."

He said the president had ordered an investigation to determine the cause of the crash.

The crash occurred at about 3:30 p.m. after the navy helicopter took off from the village of Okoroba in Bayelsa state where officials had gathered to attend the burial of the father of a presidential aide, said Commodore Kabir Aliyu. He said the helicopter was headed for Nigeria's oil capital of Port Harcourt when it crashed in the Nembe area of Bayelsa state.