FORMER RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ALEXANDER LEBED HAS DIED FROM IN...

World | April 28, 2002, Sunday // 00:00

Former Russian presidential candidate Alexander Lebed has died from injuries sustained in a helicopter crash in Siberia. The Mi-8 helicopter is said to have hit a power line in poor weather conditions at 0615 local time before crashing near Abakan, about 2,100 miles (3,400km) east of Moscow. Lebed, elected governor of the huge Krasnoyarsk region in 1998 and once a prominent army general, was taken to a nearby hospital with severe injuries but later died. At least five other people were killed in the crash.

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