Three confirmed dead in US helicopter collission

It has been confirmed that three soldiers died when U.S. Army helicopters collided and crashed Thursday in Alaska while returning from a training flight.

ValidViewNetwork had earlier reported that helicopter crash of Thursday was the second such incident in less than a month.

Two of the soldiers reportedly died at the scene of the daytime crash near Healy, Alaska, and a third died on the way to a hospital in Fairbanks. A fourth soldier was being treated at a hospital for injuries, the Army said in a statement.

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Each AH-64 Apache helicopter was carrying two people at the time of the crash, said John Pennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Alaska.