Helicopters Collide

SYDNEY – Four persons were killed in a mid-air collision between two helicopters on Monday at Australia’s Gold Coast, a popular tourist destination. Photos from the scene showed one of the helicopters’ rotors laying on a sandbar.

Police reported that three further persons were in severe condition and that onlookers had rushed to rescue passengers from an upside-down helicopter.

Images on state network ABC showed that one chopper had overturned on the exposed sandbank just a few feet from the shore.