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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
NEW DELHI, June 15 (Xinhua) — Seven people, including two children, a pilot and four male passengers, were killed when a private helicopter crashed in India’s northern Uttarakhand state early Sunday, a senior state government official said.
The helicopter, owned by private company Aryan Aviation, was flying from Kedarnath, a famous Hindu pilgrimage site, to Guptkashi district.
Kedarnath-Guptkashi is a 7km stretch of jungle. Television footage shows smoke billowing from the wreckage of a crashed helicopter.
Spokesman Vinay Shankar Pandey said: “As per initial reports and eyewitness accounts, there is no hope that anyone survived the crash.”
He added that teams from the National Disaster Response Force and the state disaster response force had been dispatched to the crash site. -0-