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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The New Orleans Police Department sends their condolences to Baton Rouge Police after losing two officers in the line of duty.

Sunday afternoon around 3 p.m. (March 26th) East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sharon Broome confirmed that two Baton Rouge Police Department pilot officers were killed in a helicopter crash near Port Allen.

NOPD Supt. Michelle Woodfork expressed her condolences in a statement saying, “On behalf of men and women of the New Orleans Police Department, I extend my sincerest condolences to the families and colleagues of the Baton Rouge Police Department officers who tragically lost their lives today in the line of duty.”

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