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By Umar Audu<\/div>\n
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Villagers in the Chukuba community of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger have fled to neighbouring areas of Erena, Zumba and Gwada in Shiroro, following a Nigerian Air Force, NAF, helicopter crash in their area.<\/div>\n
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Akilu Ishaku, Chairman, Shiroro Local Government, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Monday.<\/div>\n
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He said he received the information about the air crash from the security personnel in the area, the Village Head of Galkogo and other stakeholders in the area where the incident occurred.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAs the chief security officer of Shiroro Local Government, I have received reports of an aircraft crash, but the report did not state exactly who the aircraft belongs to.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe name of the village where the crash happened is Badna village under Kwaki Chukuba ward.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe people claimed they saw flame from a distance and saw that it was a helicopter that was on fire,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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Ishaku disclosed that the incident made people from the area flee in droves for safety as a result of fear and were taking shelter in Erana, Zumba and Gwada.<\/div>\n
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NAN reports that NAF had in a statement by its Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, on Monday in Abuja, confirmed one of its aircraft crashed in Chukuba village in Niger state.<\/div>\n
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He said the aircraft departed Zungeru Primary School en route to Kaduna but was later discovered to have crashed in a village in Shiroro LGA of Niger.<\/div>\n
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The air force said the aircraft was on a casualty evacuation mission when the crash happened.<\/div>\n
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The statement said \u201ca Mi-171 helicopter on a casualty evacuation mission crashed at about 1:00 p.m. at Chukuba village in Niger.<\/div>\n
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NAF air\u00a0 crash: Shiroro villagers relocate for safety By Umar Audu Villagers in the Chukuba community of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger have fled to neighbouring areas of Erena, Zumba and Gwada in Shiroro, following a Nigerian Air Force, NAF, helicopter crash in their area. Akilu Ishaku, Chairman, Shiroro Local Government, disclosed this to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"\nNAF air\u00a0 crash: Shiroro villagers\u00a0 relocate for safety -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=16804\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NAF air\u00a0 crash: Shiroro villagers\u00a0 relocate for safety -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NAF air\u00a0 crash: Shiroro villagers relocate for safety By Umar Audu Villagers in the Chukuba community of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger have fled to neighbouring areas of Erena, Zumba and Gwada in Shiroro, following a Nigerian Air Force, NAF, helicopter crash in their area. 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