Arunachal Pradesh pays last respects to Dorjee Khandu
The body of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, who was killed in a helicopter crash, was on Thursday brought to Itanagar by the Army for people to pay their last respects before being taken to his home district, Tawang, on Friday for the last rites.
The body, which was located on Wednesday from the accident site, was first taken to Luguthang and then airlifted to Tawang by an IAF helicopter along with the bodies of four others who were also killed in the crash on Saturday.
Text: PTI
Image: The body of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, who died in a helicopter crash, is taken to his official residence from the helipad in Itanagar on Thursday, May 5, 2011. Khandus body was brought to Itanagar from the crash site by an MI-17 chopper. (Photographs copyright PTI)
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