Tourists killed in helicopter crash on reef

A helicopter carrying American tourists has crashed at a coral-viewing site on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, killing two passengers and injuring another two, police said.

The pilot pulled one passenger from the wreckage but desperate attempts to revive the 65-yearold woman failed, Police Inspector Ian Haughton said.

A 79-year-old man also died despite bystanders’ attempts to resuscitate him, Mr Haughton said. The two who died were from Hawaii. A 34-yearold man and a 33-year-old woman, from Colorado, were taken to the Australianmainlandfortreatment on non-life-threatening injuries, he said.

The five-seat, singleengine Eurocopter EC120 Colibri crashed 40 miles north east of the Whitsunday Islands.