TN Police felicitates locals involved in rescue operation in M1-17V5 copter crash
10-December-2021
Tamil Nadu police on Friday felicitated the villagers and estate workers
who were the first to reach the spot when the helicopter M1-17V5
carrying Chief of Defence Service (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife
Madhulika Rawat and 12 others crashed at Kateri near Coonoor.
Tamil
Nadu police DGP, C. Sylendra Babu was personally present while
felicitating the local and estate workers who had helped to recover the
mortal remains and provided blankets and other clothes to carry the
injured to the Wellington Army hospital.
While handing over
blankets, clothes, and eatables to the local estate workers in Conoor,
ther DIG told media: "The local people who are workers in tea estates
has done a yeoman service by rushing to the place on hearing about the
accident. The service of these people have to be recorded and hence we
are felicitating them."
Meanwhile, he said that the state police, under the leadership of ADSP Muthumanickam, who is heading the special team investigating the case, have recorded eyewitnesses' statements.
"We have already taken the account of 25 people and will be handing over these statements to the Army special team led by Air Marshall Manavendra Singh," he told the media. - IANS
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