An army helicopter crashed on Wednesday in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing the pilot and two other crew members, state television said.

The chopper went down over the Ndolo military airport in the north of Kinshasa, the RTNC channel said.

The pilot died at the scene and the two crew members died later in hospital, it said.

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The cause of the crash was not yet known.