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The crash occurred during wildfire suppression efforts in Indonesia. It follows a separate military helicopter crash off Borneo that killed three people just days prior.
A crew member of a helicopter battling Indonesian wildfires was killed on Sunday when the aircraft crashed into a river as it scooped up water for an airborne drop, a local disaster agency said.
The crash in Borneo Island’s South Kalimantan province was the second in days involving a firefighting aircraft, after a military helicopter plunged into the waters off Borneo on Wednesday, killing three people.
Two Australian pilots survived Sunday’s crash and were “safe”, Berton Panjaitan, a spokesman for the national disaster mitigation agency, said earlier on Sunday. Further details of their condition were not immediately available.

A train collision south of Cairo resulted in four deaths and 88 injuries. A train traveling from Giza to Fayoum struck the rear of a service heading from Cairo to Aswan, causing multiple carriages to derail.

The "Eagle's Nest", a building built in Nazi Germany, was set on fire on October 23, and the suspect has been arrested. The incident sparked a heated debate in Germany over whether the site should be demolished to restore nature or rebuilt to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi "shrine".

The 2026 Red River Basin China-Vietnam Cooperation Week and Border Economic, Trade and Tourism Fair opened in Yunnan Hekou. The two parties aim to deepen cooperation in the fields of economy and trade, cross-border processing, green energy and cultural tourism, and promote local connectivity and common development in the Red River Basin.
An Indonesian "Super Puma" H-225 helicopter carrying out forest fire-fighting missions crashed in the Barito River in South Kalimantan Province on the 8th. One Indonesian crew member was killed and two foreign pilots were rescued. This is the second firefighting helicopter crash in Indonesia within a week.

Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry confirmed that the administrative building of Saudi Aramco in Riyadh was damaged by missile fragments. The Saudi coalition said it had intercepted two missiles launched by the Yemeni Youth Movement and that no casualties were reported in the incident.

The 2026 Guangxi Cultural Tourism Development Conference was held in Hezhou City on the 8th. It was announced at the meeting that the 2028 conference would be hosted by Qinzhou City. Qinzhou stood out among five candidate cities, including Hechi, Guigang, Qinzhou, Yulin and Laibin.