Singer Oliver Tree among 6 killed in helicopter collision over Rio de Janeiro

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Two helicopters collided implicit Rio de Janeiro connected Sunday greeting and crashed successful the city's occidental zone, sidesplitting each six radical aboard, including American vocalist and comedian Oliver Tree, firefighters said.

Rio de Janeiro's Military Fire Department said 1 of the helicopters crashed successful the parking batch of a car dealership, wherever respective electrical vehicles were parked, igniting a occurrence that was rapidly extinguished.

Officials said an probe is underway to find the origin of the collision.

Police said that Tree was connected the database of passengers handed to aviation authorities, but person not been capable to place the bodies of those killed successful the crash. There were 3 different passengers successful Tree's chopper and the pilot. The different chopper carried lone the pilot, according to the manifest provided by Brazilian authorities.

Fernandes de Freitas, a tyre repair worker, said helium saw 1 of the helicopters successful flames pursuing the midair collision, and noticed that 1 of the passengers jumped retired of the different craft earlier it deed the ground. "It was terrifying, perfectly horrifying," De Freitas said.

Tree performed successful Buenos Aires, Argentina, connected June 4, and published a video connected his Instagram Saturday successful which helium is playing shot successful a Brazilian neighborhood. Tree was connected a satellite circuit to beforehand his 2026 medium "Love You Madly Hate You Badly." His adjacent scheduled show was connected July 1 successful Lisbon, Portugal, according to his authoritative website.

According to Variety, Tree had a ample pursuing connected TikTok and his songs were often utilized successful videos connected the platform. "Life Goes On" has been featured successful much than 3.7 cardinal videos since its 2021 release, portion his 2022 opus "Miss You" is featured successful astir 1.5 cardinal videos, the Outlet reported.

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