A helicopter crash in the northern India state of Uttarakhand has led to the death of seven people.
The accident occurred on Sunday, only three days after an India Air plane crashed into a residential area in Ahmedabad and killed more than 270 people.
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According to local media, the Aryan Aviation Bell 407 helicopter VT-BKA was en route from Kedarnath to Guptkashi, following a pilgrimage path through the Himalayan mountains.
Five passengers, one child and one crew member were on board the flight, BBC reports.
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The Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation said the pilot and a two-year-old child were among those killed, and the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) will be investigating the crash.
The Uttarakhand Civil Aviation Department said,” At around 5:30 AM, we got the information that a helicopter, which was going from Shri Kedarnath Dham, could not be located.”
The aircraft was later discovered to have crashed near Gaurikund, a key stop on the Kedarnath pilgrimage route.
According to the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), local administration and other rescue teams have begun engaging in relief and rescue operations.
He described the incident as “very sad news.”
Meanwhile, the death toll from the India Air plane crash on Thursday has continued to rise as the search and recovery team continues searching through charred buildings for missing persons and debris of the Boeing 787 aircraft.
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Officials said recovery teams working late into Friday uncovered at least 25 more bodies in the wreckage.
The Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad told The Associated Press that the facility had received 270 bodies, and only the surviving passenger is still under observation for his injuries.
“He is doing very well and will be ready to be discharged anytime soon,” the facility said on Saturday.
The facility has also commenced DNA matching, and hundreds of relatives of the crash victims have submitted DNA samples, as most of the bodies were severely charred or mutilated and are unrecognisable.
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