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Angelo Amante & Liam Buckler

Five people killed after helicopter crashes in bad weather with two missing

Five people have been killed in a helicopter crash in Italy - after the aircraft went missing for two days.

Two passengers are still missing as the aircraft vanished from radar screens when it took off on Thursday from Lucca in Tuscany.

The helicopter was heading towards the northern city of Treviso when it disappeared from radar screens after hitting bad weather above a hilly, wooded area.

Eugenio Giani, the governor of the Tuscany region, wrote on Facebook the helicopter crashed in a mountain area at the border between Tuscany and the Emilia Romagna region.

The bodies of the five dead were found on Saturday.

The helicopter took off on Thursday from Lucca in Tuscany and was heading towards the northern city of Treviso (via REUTERS)

Seven people were aboard the helicopter, including four Turkish businessmen working for Eczacibasi Consumer Products, a subsidiary of the major Turkish industrial group, Eczacibasi.

They had been attending a paper technologies fair in Italy, the company said in a statement.

According to Lebanese state news agency NNA, the other two passengers were Lebanese.

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