Video: Syrian Army helicopter comes down and one crew member is 'executed' in the country's rebel-held north
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reported that four crew members were captured and one was executed at the crash site
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A video has captured the moment a Syrian Army helicopter came down in a north-western rebel-held area of the country, leading to four crew members being captured and one being killed, a monitoring group has said.
The amateur footage taken over the weekend shows the helicopter crashing in the Jabal al-Zawiya in Idlib province, an area held by anti-government fighters including the al-Qaeda backed group the al-Nusra front.
Images of the downed craft were circulated across social media showing the helicopter’s nose damaged and its undercarriage ripped away.
Rebel fighters as well as a number of locals can be seen surveying the wreckage.
The SOHR said that the craft was forced to make an emergency landing after it had got into trouble in the rocky hills over near the near the northern town of Maarat al-Numan.
Syria’s state news agency confirmed that the craft had been forced to make an emergency landing after it had experienced “technical problems”.
Barrel bombs are large cylindrical devices packed with large amounts of explosives that can cause indiscriminate damage and devastation far beyond their intended targets.
In February, President Bashar al-Assad denied that the Syrian Army used barrel bombs.
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