"HADITHA, Iraq (Reuters) - One Marine was killed and three servicemen were missing after a U.S. transport helicopter with 16 people on board made an emergency landing on water in western Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday.
It said the Ch-46 twin-rotor Sea Knight, the Marine version of the Chinook, was carrying 16 personnel including the crew when it came down in volatile Anbar province, heartland of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq.
However, an Iraqi military intelligence official in Anbar province told Reuters the helicopter crashed early on Monday, an account backed up by residents who said it landed in Lake Qadisiya in Haditha, 250 km (150 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
The official, who asked not to be identified, said the helicopter had been shot down. It was on its way to rescue a group of U.S. soldiers who were attacked as they crossed the Euphrates River in boats, he said."
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