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A helicopter carrying firefighters from a forest fire crashed in southern Chile on Sunday, killing all 14 people on board, authorities said.

The helicopter hit a hillside near Chanco, some 165 miles (270 kilometers) south of Santiago, said Maule province Gov. Maria del Carmen Perez.

Its two pilots had just retrieved 12 firefighters from a day's work battling a blaze, said Dante Bravo, head of the National Forest Service.

The fire was still being controlled at the time of the crash.

Bravo said the victims were young men between the ages of 18 and 25 who worked for Celulosa ...

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