COTONOU – Benin’s Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou walked away unharmed after the helicopter he was travelling in crash-landed in the north of the West African nation on Saturday, his daughter said.
It was not immediately known why Mr Zinsou’s helicopter made the forced landing in the town of Djougou, where he had been due to meet local people.
“My father is fine. There were no victims in the helicopter accident in Djougou,” Marie-Cecile Zinsou, who is also a member of her father’s communications team, wrote on her Twitter feed.
“He is safe and sound as are all the other passengers,” she said.
