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AP, Rome

A US service member died overnight in a northern Italian hospital, bringing to six the number killed in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter, officials said Friday. Eleven U.S. service members were on board the UH-60 Army Blackhawk helicopter that went down Thursday near the city of Treviso, U.S. Army Europe said in a statement released by its headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. The military said that the names of the victims were being withheld pending notification of next of kin and that the cause of the crash was not immediately known. Italian rescue services said they pulled four bodies from the wreckage and the U.S. army said a fifth person died later in hospital. The sixth person died Thursday around 10:00 p.m. local time, said an official at Treviso's hospital. "He was in serious hemorrhagic shock when he arrived," said hospital spokesman Fabio Bruno.