TYUMEN (West Siberia), August 9 (RIA Novosti) - Three of four men injured in a helicopter crash in Siberia Wednesday morning are in intensive care, a doctor treating the patients said.
An American-made (McDonnell Douglas) MD-600 helicopter came down in the town of Uvat, Russia's Tyumen Region, at 10:30 a.m. Moscow time (6:30 a.m. GMT) with four people on board.
"Three patients are in intensive care, and the other is in the surgery department," said Olga Semyonova, acting chief doctor at the local hospital. "Two of them are in an extremely serious condition, and the other two have moderately serious injuries."
Semyonova said all of them had spinal injuries and three also head injuries adding that doctors were holding consultations to specify the diagnoses. She said one of the patients was a 23-year-old man, whereas the others were men above 40.
Police and prosecutors are working at the scene.
