Jan. 24 (UPI) -- A helicopter, believed to be carrying five rescue workers and an injured skier, crashed Wednesday near the site of last week's avalanche in Italy, officials said.
Although the incident had no connection to the earthquake-provoked avalanche which buried a resort hotel and killed at least 14 people, the helicopter crashed about 60 miles away. Flying in a dense fog at an altitude of about 2,000 feet about mountainous central Italy, it fell after picking up a skier injured at the Camp Felice ski resort, about 75 miles east of Rome. The helicopter was in the fleet of Italy's national ambulance service.