A tragic event happened today in a city in southern Italy, Foggia.
An A109 helicopter with seven people on board, which lost radio contact and disappeared from radar, has crashed.
Italian media reports that none of the people on board survived, two children are among the victims. The vice president of the Puglia Region, Raffaele Piemontese, announced that the helicopter was found crashed and that the people are all dead.
On board the helicopter was also a doctor from station 118 present in the Tremiti Islands, who was returning home after his work shift.
The helicopter's last radar contact was in the area between Apricena and San Severo in the lower Gargano, an area where a storm was developing, the helicopter, in service on the Foggia-Vieste-Tremiti Islands line, belonged to the transport company aerial Alidaunia.
The helicopter had left at 9:20 a.m. local time from the Tremiti Islands and then lost track. The wreckage was found in a rural area of Castelpagano di Apricena.