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Wreckage
of Arunachal chief minister's chopper found
Wednesday May 04, 2011 03:38:27 PM,
IANS
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Itanagar: Family
members Wednesday reached the site of the helicopter crash and
identified the body of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee
Khandu but the other four bodies were mutilated and charred beyond
recognition, officials said.
Police said a small group of the chief minister's family, security
personnel and local officials touched the site after an arduous
four hour trek near Lobotang, 30 km north of the 13,700 feet Sela
Pass in Tawang district.
The wreckage had been sighted around 10 a.m. by a group of
civilians led by a Village Defence Party (VDP).
"Some family members were able to identify the chief minister's
mutilated body. According to information, the four other bodies
were badly mutilated and charred almost beyond recognition," the
official told IANS.
Efforts are now on to get back the five bodies to the nearest
accessible point but this could take close to seven hours.
"It would be an uphill climb, and the terrain is rough and
slippery," Kiren Rijiju, adviser to the chief minister, told IANS.
As news of the sighting of the wreckage spread, a pall of gloom
descended in the mountainous state.
"This is heartbreaking. We are sad as the chief minister was a
visionary and honest politician. His death has shaken us," moaned
Bamang Tago, a civil rights campaigner.
The Pawan Hans AS350 B-3 helicopter carrying the chief minister
and four others went missing after it took off from Tawang at 9.50
a.m. Saturday.
The last radio contact with the ground was about 20 minutes after
take off as it flew over the Sela Pass along the Chinese border.
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