NYT Correspondent Injured in Iraq Helicopter Crash

AlissaRubinTwitterProfilePicParis bureau chief Alissa J. Rubin is banged up but OK. From colleague Rob Nordland and Rick Gladstone’s dispatch:

A helicopter carrying aid from Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous government to stranded Yazidi refugees in the Sinjar mountains of northern Iraq crashed on Tuesday, killing the pilot and injuring other passengers, including a New York Times journalist on assignment for the newspaper.

Alissa J. Rubin, 56, The Times’s Paris bureau chief and a longtime war correspondent, suffered an apparent concussion and broken wrists but was conscious, she confirmed when contacted briefly by cellphone.

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