Helicopter crash kills pilot & three medics after air ambulance plummets into Russian forest

FOUR people have died in a deadly chopper crash in Russia.

The Mi-2 ambulance chopper, operated by one pilot and carrying a doctor and two paramedics, crashed in a forest some 400 miles outside of Moscow.

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Rescuers initially only found three bodies at the site of the crash, but later located the fourth, the ministry said.

Russian authorities have not yet revealed the cause behind the fatal crash.

The Mi-2 is a small, Soviet-designed helicopter used for a variety of purposes.

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