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>Five die in Tajik mountains helicopter crash but 13 survive
>Twelve mainly Russian climbers and a crew member have survived a helicopter crash in the mountains of Tajikistan.
>But three Russian climbers and two Tajik pilots died in the accident in the Pamir Mountains in east Tajikistan.
>The "hard landing" of the helicopter happened at 17:30 (11:30 GMT) on Sunday, Tajik officials said.
>Russian news agencies said the helicopter had taken the climbers from a nearby base camp on the Fortambek glacier on the Ismoili Somoni peak.
>Of the 12 climbers to survive, two are Belarusian and Spanish and the remainder Russian. The surviving crew member was from Tajikistan.
>The helicopter, a Russian-built Mi-8, crash-landed on the edge of the Fortambek glacier, approximately 300 km (186 miles) east of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
>At 7,495m (24,590ft), the Ismoili Somoni mountain is Tajikistan's highest and a major tourist attraction.
>It was known as Communism Peak when Tajikistan was part of the Soviet Union and renamed after a 10th-Century Tajik national hero in 1998.
>The Pamir mountain range is often described as the "roof of the world".
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