Seven people killed in helicopter crash in India's Uttarakhand state
NEW DELHI: Seven people, including a toddler, have been killed in India's northern Uttarakhand state when a helicopter ferrying them for a Hindu pilgrimage crashed in the Himalayas, officials said.
Officials from the Uttarakhand Civil Aviation Development Authority told reporters the chopper took off at about 5.30am (00:00 GMT) on Sunday from the temple town of Kedarnath for Guptkashi, a town some 37km away, but crashed shortly after takeoff. The deceased have been identified as the pilot, Captain Rajveer Singh Chauhan, and passengers Vikram Rawat, Vinod Devi, Trishti Singh, Rajkumar Jaiswal, his wife Shraddha Jaiswal and their two-year-old daughter, Kashi.
The bodies were badly burned in a fire that followed the crash, authorities said. (Agencies)
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