Helicopter Crash in Northern India Kills 7 on Hindu Pilgrimage Route

Helicopter Crash in Northern India Kills 7 on Hindu Pilgrimage Route
Members of rescue teams work at the site of a chopper crash in the Gaurikund area of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, on June 15, 2025. (State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) Uttarakhand/Handout via Reuters)
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All seven people on a helicopter in northern India were killed early on Sunday when it crashed while ferrying passengers on a popular Hindu pilgrimage route in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, officials said.

The helicopter was headed to Guptkashi from the shrine of Kedarnath, said the state’s director-general of information, Bansidhar Tripathi.