Two officers were killed when a Saudi National Guard reconnaissance helicopter crashed in the southwestern Najran region on Sunday, according to the spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition.

Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki said the AH-6i helicopter went down inside Saudi territory because of a technical malfunction in a statement posted on X. The AH-6i is a light helicopter used for reconnaissance.

The aircraft belonged to the Ministry of National Guard and crashed in Najran, a region on the kingdom's southwestern border with Yemen. Al-Maliki said that both officers aboard died. The statement did not name them.

He offered condolences to the families of the victims and prayed for God’s mercy upon them.

The statement did not say what time the crash occurred, where exactly the helicopter came down, or what the aircraft was doing at the time. It provided no details of the technical malfunction, and no investigation was mentioned.

Source: Arab News