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NEW DELHI, Dec 8 — A helicopter carrying India’s defence chief General Bipin Rawat crashed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu today, the air force said. The 63-year-old chief of defence staff was travelling in a Russian-made Mi-17V5 chopper that “met with an accident today near Coonoor,...

NEW DELHI, Dec 8 — A helicopter carrying India’s defence chief General Bipin Rawat crashed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu today, the air force said.

Rawat is India’s first chief of defence staff, a position that the Indian government established in 2019, and is seen as close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Videos broadcast on Indian news channels showed a fiery wreck at the crash site in a dense forested area near the college in Nilgiris district.

Rawat comes from a military family with several generations having served in the Indian armed forces.

 

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