In Australia the story below is being reported, any talk of who might be involved?

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A HELICOPTER carrying people involved in the French Formula One Grand Prix has crashed in central France killing three people and seriously injuring two, police and officials said.

The rented helicopter was ferrying people from the Magny-Cours racetrack, where the French Grand Prix takes place tonight, to their hotel when it crashed shortly after 10pm local time on Saturday night in the Raveau forest near the town Chariti-sur-Loire.

The injured were evacuated to a nearby hospital and an investigation was opened into the cause of the crash of the helicopter, which had five people on board.

Police have not disclosed the names of those killed or injured in the crash.