{"id":55649,"date":"2026-06-30T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/saudi-arabia-helicopter-crash-kills-all-14-on-board\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:11:07","slug":"saudi-arabia-helicopter-crash-kills-all-14-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/saudi-arabia-helicopter-crash-kills-all-14-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia helicopter crash kills all 14 on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Fourteen people were killed when a helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia, state media reported on Sunday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The helicopter, belonging to state oil giant Aramco, crashed in the eastern coastal city of Ras Tanura at 06:00 local time (03:00 GMT) killing all those on board, according to the Saudi Press Agency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All 14 victims were Saudi citizens, it reported, with investigations under way to determine the cause of the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aramco did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Saudi energy ministry shared its condolences with the victims&#8217; families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ras Tanura is home to a major Aramco oil refinery &#8211; one of the largest in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Reuters news agency reported that the company had resumed crude oil loading at the site on Friday after an almost four-month pause due to the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3eyd9j5g7xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen people were killed when a helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia, state media reported on Sunday. The helicopter, belonging to state oil giant Aramco, crashed in the eastern coastal city of Ras Tanura at 06:00 local time (03:00 GMT) killing all those on board, according to the Saudi Press Agency. All 14 victims were Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55651,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55649\/revisions\/55651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}