Helicopter crash kills three in French garden

MARSEILLE, France, Jan 7 (Reuters) Three people were killed when a helicopter crashed in the garden of a restaurant in southern France today, emergency services said.

All victims had been in a garden near the village of Salin-de-Giraud in the southern Camargue region at the time of the crash, the services said.

''The helicopter's pilot and its three passengers are unharmed,'' a spokesman for the emergence services said.

''Unfortunately, we have three deaths to deplore on the ground,'' he said, adding a fourth person had been seriously injured. It was not clear what had caused the accident.

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