Bipin Rawat Chopper Crash Live Updates: Mortal remains to be brought to Delhi today evening, says Rajnath Singh

Bipin Rawat Chopper Crash Live Updates: Mortal remains to be brought to Delhi today evening, says Rajnath Singh

Bipin Rawat Chopper Crash Live Updates: Mortal remains to be brought to Delhi today evening, says Rajnath Singh

Chennai : The bodies of Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika and three others have been identified, sources said on Thursday.

These five are among the 13, who were killed in the M17 helicopter crash on Wednesday in Tamil Nadu. Group Captain Varun Singh, the Directing Staff at the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington, is the lone survivor of the ill-fated chopper.

The other bodies were being sent to Coimbatore for further DNA testing, sources said.

A wreath-laying ceremony will be held at the Madras Regimental Centre in Tamil Nadu's Wellington, after which the bodies will be brought to Sulur airbase by road.

Earlier in the day, the data recorder of the chopper was recovered by a 25-member special team of Air Force officers led by Wing Commander R Bhardwaj.

The IAF helicopter had taken off on Wednesday morning from the Sulur air base and crashed minutes before it was supposed to land at Coonoor. IANS