Helicopter crashes in northern India, killing all on board
Officer of Rudraprayag's Disaster Management, Nandan Singh Rajwar, told Press Trust of India that the helicopter, which was flying between Kedarnath and Guptkashi, lost contact around 5:20am and crashed shortly after takeoff in Gauri Kund amid adverse weather conditions and low visibility.
There were six people on board, in addition to the pilot, all from different Indian states.
Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami, said in a post on the X platform that emergency response teams, in cooperation with local authorities, are conducting extensive search and rescue operations at the crash site.
The incident comes days after another air disaster in India, when an Air India plane crashed while en route from Ahmedabad to London, killing all but one person on board.
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