President Kais Saied met on Thursday at the Carthage Palace Minister of National Defence, Imed Memiche.
The meeting dealt with the painful accident that took place on Wednesday night and led to the martyrdom of 4 military personnel after the helicopter they were in crashed.
It focused on the need to renew military equipment, “because such incidents, which can happen in any country, unfortunately occur in Tunisia as a result of the erosion of a number of pieces of equipment that have led to such tragedies,” according to a statement from the presidency.
The President of the Republic instructed the Minister of National Defence to convey his sincere condolences to the families of the martyrs, asking God to bless them with His mercy and to join them with the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs and the righteous, and to inspire their families with patience and consolation.
President Saied paid tribute to the role played by the armed forces in safeguarding Tunisia’s sovereignty and to the experts working to develop its mechanisms and equipment.
The Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Thursday that a helicopter which it had lost contact with in the Cape Serrat region of Bizerte had crashed into the sea on Wednesday night.
It had announced early Thursday, the loss of contact with a helicopter and its crew, consisting of four people, which was conducting a night flight mission in Cape Serrat.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse