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HOUSTON (AP) — A chopper reportedly crashed Sunday successful Houston aft hitting a vigor tower, sidesplitting 4 radical connected board, including a child, occurrence officials said.
Houston authorities said the aircraft, an R44 helicopter, went down conscionable earlier 8 p.m. successful Houston's Second Ward, eastbound of the city's downtown, aft seemingly taking disconnected from Ellington Field astir 15 miles away.
The identities of the victims and their ages person not yet been released.
“PIO is en way to a reported chopper clang astatine Engelke & Ennis," the occurrence section said Sunday evening connected X.
“The chopper that crashed successful Second Ward was not an HPD helicopter, it was a backstage touring helicopter,” Houston City Councilmember Mario Castillo said connected X, though that could not beryllium instantly confirmed.
Local media outlets reported a ample magnitude of exigency unit responding to the scene.
Police and occurrence officials person urged residents adjacent the clang tract to telephone 911 if they find thing connected their spot that could assistance successful their investigation.
