{"id":663106,"date":"2026-06-28T17:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663106\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:51:30","slug":"saudi-arabia-helicopter-crash-kills-all-14-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663106\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia helicopter crash kills all 14 on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fourteen people were killed when a helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia, state media reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The helicopter, belonging to state oil giant Aramco, crashed in the eastern coastal city of Ras Tanura at 06:00 local time (03:00 GMT) killing all those on board, according to the Saudi Press Agency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All 14 victims were Saudi citizens, it reported, with investigations under way to determine the cause of the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aramco did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Saudi energy ministry shared its condolences with the victims&#8217; families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ras Tanura is home to a major Aramco oil refinery &#8211; one of the largest in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Reuters news agency reported that the company had resumed crude oil loading at the site on Friday after an almost four-month pause due to the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourteen people were killed when a helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia, state media reported on Sunday. The helicopter,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-663106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}