TBILISI: Three people died on Thursday when a helicopter owned by one of Georgia’s top luxury hotels crashed in a northern mountainous region of the country, emergency services said.
A chopper belonging to the Rooms luxury hotel “crashed in an unpopulated area near the Qulo mountain in the Kazbegi municipality,” the spokesman of Georgia’s emergency situations department, Rati Mujiri, told AFP.
“All three people onboard have died,” he said.
“The helicopter pilot and two staff members of the Adjara Group (which owns Kazbegi Rooms hotel) have been killed in the accident,” the company said in a statement.
The Rooms hotel operates Bell 505 Jet Ranger helicopters, according to the hotel’s website.
Famed for its spectacular landscapes with snow-capped peaks of the Greater Caucasus mountain range, dramatic rocky gorges, and medieval churches, Kazbegi is a popular tourist destination.
Three die in Georgia luxury hotel helicopter crash
Three die in Georgia luxury hotel helicopter crash
- The helicopter belonged to the Rooms luxury hotel
- The pilot and two staff from the Adjara Group died in the crash
Kremlin says won’t share ‘specifics’ of Putin, Trump phone call on Iran war
DUBAI: The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it will not disclose the specific proposals by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the current Middle East war which came during an earlier phone call with US President Donald Trump.
During a presser, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia will not disclose the “specifics” of the Russian president’s proposals to Trump.
Putin held a phone call with Trump on Monday where they discussed the Ukraine and Iran wars.
Trump hailed the conversation as “positive.”
“He wants to be helpful” on the Middle East, Trump said of Putin.
Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov told reporters later that day that Putin had a roughly one-hour telephone conversation with Trump at the request of the US side. The two leaders had not spoken over the phone since late December of last year.
Separately, Russia said it is constantly in touch with the Iranian leadership and willing to contribute to efforts to stabilize the region.
“Here I can only say that we are in constant contact with the Iranian side and with the Iranian leadership.”
“As President (Vladimir) Putin has said, Russia is always ready to do what it can to restore peace and stability in the region.”
