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Mourners leave flowers at Ga. police helicopter crash site

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Local resident Ciara Edmonds glances up at telephone wires and lines Sunday after placing a rose on a shrine of the crash site where a police helicopter crashed killing two officers in Atlanta. The crash occurred Saturday during a search for a missing child.

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Mourners have been leaving flowers, cards and other mementos at a makeshift memorial near the site of a police helicopter crash that killed two Atlanta officers who were searching for a runaway boy. The chopper struck a power pole, them plummeted to the ground and exploded, killing both officers on board late Saturday night, authorities said. No one on the ground was hurt.
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