CHARIKOT, Nepal, May 13 (Reuters) - The Nepali army has been told a missing U.S. Marines helicopter with eight on board may have come down in a river in the Charikot area hit hard by an earthquake and 400 soldiers are engaged in the hunt, a senior officer said on Wednesday.
Nepali troops search for U.S. Marines chopper in rivers
By Krista Mahr and Ross Adkin
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"The info we have is that it is down in one of the rivers, but none of the choppers has seen it yet," Major Rajan Dahal, second-in-command of the Barda Bahadur Batallion, told Reuters in Charikot.
"There are 400-plus of our ground troops looking for it also, by this evening, we might get it," he said.
The Marine Corps UH-1Y Huey helicopter participating in earthquake relief operations lost radio contact on Tuesday after its crew was heard talking about fuel problems. (Writing by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Douglas Busvine)
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