A Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) helicopter has crashed in Fort Portal.
The helicopter crashed into a mud and wattle house at Saaka at 10a.m, just half a kilometer from the airfield.
According to an eyewitness, three helicopters had just taken off from Saaka airfield but one of them crashed into the house. The eyewitness says that an unidentified occupant of the house who is an elderly woman was rushed to hospital.
Other witnesses said that two UPDF soldiers were seen disembarking from the helicopter.
UPDF soldiers have cordoned off the scene of the crash to prevent on-lookers from getting to it.
“This morning our MI 24 helicopter developed a mechanical fault while in flight and the pilot made an emergency landing. Fortunately no casualties both to the occupants of the plane and on the ground,” tweeted the army spokesperson Brig Felix Kulayigye.
Reported by URN
