BANGKOK, June  17. /ITAR-TASS reporter Alexei Skovoronsky /. Five soldiers have been injured today in a military helicopter crash in the province of Nakhon Nayok in the central part of Thailand, as told by local police representatives.

The injured are hospitalized, one of them in a serious condition. According to the province’s governor, the cause of the accident was a technical failure. In total, there were eight people on board of the helicopter. Three of them were not injured.