A helicopter carrying India’s defense chief General Bipin Rawat crashed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the air force said. | AFP
Footage from the scene showed a crowd of people trying to extinguish the fiery wreck with water buckets while a group of soldiers carried one of the passengers away on an improvised stretcher.
Rawat was headed to the Defense Services Staff College from the nearby Sulur air force base in Coimbatore and the helicopter was already making its descent. Rawat was chief of the 1.3 million-strong army from 2017 to 2019 before his elevation to defense services chief, which analysts said was to improve integration between the army, navy, and air force.
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