At least three people, including two British citizens, were killed in Russia’s Far North on Sunday when a helicopter crashed into them while they were standing on the ground

At least three people, including two British citizens, were killed in Russia's Far North on Sunday when a helicopter crashed into them while they were standing on the ground, officials said.
  
A distress signal had already been received from the Eurocopter-120 before it made the hard landing on the north of the Kola peninsula in the Murmansk region.
  
"Three people were killed, two of them are British citizens," the local branch of the emergencies ministry said in a statement on Russian news agencies.
  
RIA Novosti said that the two foreigners were believed to be tourists. The identity of the other individual said to have been killed was not immediately clear.

The Investigative Committee said in a statement that a probe had been opened into the accident, without giving further details.