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Old 31st December 2003 | 05:15
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Bill O'Average
 
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Just seen on sky news. Serbian Gazelle carrying Santa. Crew ok, Sky reports that santa died!

Looked pretty messy.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...od_nm/santa_dc
Santa Crashes from the Sky

BELGRADE (Reuters)
- A helicopter carrying a man dressed as Santa Claus to street celebrations in a Serbian town crashed on Tuesday, injuring several people.

The helicopter crashed a few hundred yards from a crowd of children gathered to greet Santa in the central town of Kragujevac, witnesses and local media said.

The pilot, co-pilot and the Santa were all injured, Beta news agency reported. Four people were injured but their lives were not in danger, a hospital official said. There was no word on the cause of the crash.

Serbs celebrate Orthodox Christmas on January 7 but children receive presents at New Year -- a legacy of communist rule when Christmas was not officially celebrated.

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