General Bipin Rawat, India's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) appointed on December 31, 2019, and who had a vast experience across a wide spectrum of conflict and terrain profiles, was among the 13 people who were killed on Wednesday when IAF's military helicopter Mi-17V5 they were travelling in crashed in a hilly area in apparently foggy conditions near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu, the Indian Air Force (IAF) and state officials said. The IAF said a Court of Inquiry has been ordered into the accident. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Kovind, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, opposition and world leaders expressed their grief over the incident. There were a total of 14 people on board the IAF chopper out of whom 13 of them have died. IAF Group Captain Varun Singh is the lone survivor. PM Modi later in the day chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security to take stock of the situation. from IndiaTV India: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3pBAm6B
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