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Uttarakhand: Bodies of all six helicopter crash victims recovered on Sunday

Dehradun, Nov 1 (UNI) Bodies of all six persons including five from Karnataka killed in a helicopter crash on October 30 in Joshimath area of Uttarakhand, were finally retrieved with the final recovery made on Sunday around 4.40 AM.
Officials of the state disaster management department in Dehradun informed that bodies of all six people killed in the Chamoli helicopter tragedy were recovered with last retrieval on Sunday morning. All bodies were brought to Jyotirmath (Joshimath) where from they were sent to the AIIMs Rishikesh.
Earlier rescue teams comprising NDRF, SDRF, ITBP, local police, fire service, local administration and army personnel were able to identify and recover mutilated bodies of the crash victims and brought them to the road near Toli Nala.
Although bodies were found by the rescuers on Saturday, the last body was brought out at around 4.40 AM on Sunday. Following this recovered bodies were taken to the Jyotirmath mortuary at 6:20 AM. The bodies were then taken in helicopter to AIIMS Rishikesh for inquest procedures (panchnama).
Here after bodies of five deceased persons belonging to Karnataka were sent to Airport and therefrom flown back to their homes in an Indigo Airlines flight in Sunday evening. Before sending them back to their home to Medical team conducted the postmortem and completed the procedural chemical preservation works on the bodies.
A Trans Bharat Aviation helicopter that had departed from Badrinath Dham for Dehradun on October 30 crashed after it hit a hill on the Hathi Parvat area in Joshimath Valley.
The helicopter crashed in the forest area between Chang Village and Lambagarh killing six persons onboard. This included five pilgrims from Karnataka and the heli pilot hailing from Delhi.
The victims had also visited Mana village considered as last village of the country near the Indo-China border before taking flight back to Sahastradhara helidrome Dehradun.
Besides Helicopter pilot captain Himanshu Sabharwal, 48, five pilgrims who died in the crash were Pratapa, 41, Arun Salunke, 44, VB Shankar Gowda, 39, Sudhir K, 50, and HS Nataraja, 51, all natives of Karnataka. UNI PS CDS
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