PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia news helicopter crashed in a wooded area of New Jersey on Tuesday night, killing the pilot and a photographer on board, the television station said.

The helicopter was returning to Philadelphia from an assignment at the Jersey Shore when it went down in Washington Township, New Jersey, around 8 p.m., WPVI-TVreported early Wednesday.

The cause of the crash is under investigation and the pilot and the photographer who died were not identified.

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