Sixteen people have been killed and five injured when a Vietnamese military helicopter crashed in the capital Hanoi early on Monday.
Quoting a top military official, AFP ran the story, reports Times of India.
"The plane was carrying 21 people and it crashed during a parachute training exercise, killing 16 and injuring five others," Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan, army deputy commander, told AFP.
The dead and injured were all military personnel, he added.