Four soldiers died in the fiery crash of a Spanish military helicopter Friday in the rugged mountains of eastern Haiti, the United Nations said. The soldiers were part of Spain's effort to help in Haiti's recovery and reconstruction following the cataclysmic Jan. 12 earthquake, which the government says killed as many as 300,000 people. The helicopter, identified by Spanish media as a Bell AB-212, crashed in the Fond Verrettes area about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Port-au-Prince near the border with the Dominican Republic. Haiti shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. U.N. peacekeeping mission spokesman George Ola-Davies said the craft was carrying four soldiers when it went down. Recovery teams had to lower themselves with ropes in the remote terrain to move toward the wreckage. The bodies remained on the mountain overnight because night fell before they could be reached.