RIYADH // A Saudi military helicopter crashed during a night training exercise in the northeast of the kingdom late on Monday, killing its four-member crew.
The statement from the defence ministry, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, did not offer a cause for the crash of the US-made Black Hawk helicopter in the Hafar Al Batin area – an area near the kingdom’s border with Iraq and Kuwait.
An investigation is under way.
The ministry identified those killed as Lt Col Ali Al Arfaj, First Lt Majid Al Fifeefi, First Lt Jadie Qablan and technician Raed Al Jahni.
* Agence France-Presse and Associated Press