An Indian Air Force helicopter, carrying relief material to flood affected areas of Uttarakhand crashed here on Wednesday. The helicopter was going from Mori to Moldi, in Uttarkashi district.Three people, Pilot Rajpal, Co-pilot Kaptal Lal & a local person Ramesh Sawar, were on-board the helicopter. Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Devendra Negi said that two out of the three persons who were on-board the helicopter, have died & one is severely injured. It may be noted that two IAF helicopters were deployed by government on Wednesday morning for carrying flood relief material for the people in the flood-ravaged Arakot village of the Mori block of the district. A cloudburst had hit Mori Tehsil in Uttarkashi district on Sunday, prompting the state government to dispatch teams of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) to carry out rescue and evacuation operations.
