'My time to die hasn't come yet' Madagascar minister Serge Gelle swims for 12 hours to safety after his helicopter crashed off the island's northeastern coast
"My time to die hasn't come yet," 57-year-old Gelle says in a video, adding he is cold but not injured.
A Madagascan minister was one of two survivors to have swum some 12 hours to shore after their helicopter crashed off the island's northeastern coast. A search was still ongoing for two other passengers after the crash on Monday, whose cause was not immediately clear, police and port authorities said on Tuesday.
Serge Gelle, the country's secretary of state for police, and a fellow policeman reached land in the seaside town of Mahambo separately on Tuesday morning, apparently, after ejecting themselves from the aircraft, port authority chief Jean-Edmond Randrianantenaina said. In a video shared on social media, 57-year-old Gelle appears lying exhausted on a deck chair, still in his camouflage uniform.Madagascar minister swims 12 hours to shore after helicopter crash
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