MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. A Mi-2 helicopter with five people aboard has crashed in the Kostroma Region in central European Russia, a source in the emergencies services told TASS on Tuesday.

"A Mi-2 helicopter, which was on a sanitary flight, crashed some four kilometers of the Sokerkino airport in the Kostroma Region. There were five people onboard," the source said.

There were two pilots, two medics and one patient onboard. Rescuers are rushing to the site. The crash was not followed by fire.