Indonesia water-bombing helicopter crash kills one: army

A helicopter drops water on burning forest and peatland fires in South Kalimantan province on Borneo island, Indonesia, in September. - Photo: AFP

JAKARTA: An Indonesian military helicopter carrying eight people on a firefighting mission crashed in waters off Borneo island on Wednesday (Nov 4), killing a crew member, the army said.

The Southeast Asian archipelago has for months been struggling to control wildfires that have burned through large swathes of Sumatra, Borneo and Papua islands, causing choking haze that drifted to neighbouring Malaysia, East Timor and Singapore.

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9月，一架直升机在印度尼西亚婆罗洲岛南加里曼丹省向燃烧的森林和泥炭地洒水。——图片：法新社

雅加达：印尼军方称，一架载有八人执行灭火任务的印尼军用直升机于周三（11月4日）在婆罗洲岛附近海域坠毁，造成一名机组人员死亡。

几个月来，这个东南亚群岛一直在努力控制肆虐苏门答腊岛、婆罗洲和巴布亚岛大片地区的野火，造成的呛人烟雾飘到了邻近的马来西亚、东帝汶和新加坡。

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