{"id":3517,"date":"2026-10-30T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:03:45","slug":"four-killed-in-crash-of-italian-helicopter-on-eu-mission-in-bosnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3517","title":{"rendered":"Four killed in crash of Italian helicopter on EU mission in Bosnia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>An Italian military helicopter operating with the EU peacekeeping mission in Bosnia \u200band Herzegovina crashed on Thursday, killing four people and injuring \u200c11 others, Italy\u2019s defence ministry said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two of those killed were members of the Italian army, and two belonged to the Italian Red Cross\u2019s Volunteer Military \u200bCorps, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>It added that all 11 injured \u200bwere receiving treatment and none was in a life-threatening condition. \u2060A total of 15 people were on board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this moment \u200bof immense grief, my thoughts go first and foremost to the families \u200bof our fallen, to whom I extend my personal condolences and those of the entire Defence establishment,\u201d Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said.<\/p>\n<p>ANSA news agency reported \u200bthe helicopter came down in the village of Gorice in \u200bBrcko district.<\/p>\n<p>Images carried by local media showed a military transport helicopter overturned on \u200cthe \u2060ground and shattered into pieces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no words capable of easing such a profound loss,\u201d Crosetto said.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft had been deployed as part of Operation Althea, run by the European Union Force, which oversees the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s defence ministry said the cause of the crash was under investigation and that inquiries were \u200bunderway to establish the circumstances of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Italian \u200bPrime Minister \u2060Giorgia Meloni also expressed her condolences, writing on X: \u201cMy thoughts are with the victims, their families, and all those who, as part of \u2060the \u200bmission to promote peace and stability in \u200bthe region, are experiencing hours of anguish.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian military helicopter operating with the EU peacekeeping mission in Bosnia \u200band Herzegovina crashed on Thursday, killing four people and injuring \u200c11 others, Italy\u2019s defence ministry said. Two of those killed were members of the Italian army, and two belonged to the Italian Red Cross\u2019s Volunteer Military \u200bCorps, the ministry said. It added that all 11 injured \u200bwere receiving treatment and none was in a life-threatening condition. \u2060A total of 15 people were on board. \u201cAt this moment \u200bof immense grief, my thoughts go first and foremost to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}