was ap cm rajasekhara reddy found devoured by tigers after the helicopter crash?”
Indian Politician Dies In Helicopter Crash Naazneen Karmali, 09.03.09, 5:32 AM ET MUMBAI – The body of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the dynamic chief minister of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, was located twenty-four hours after his Bell helicopter went missing. The discovery of the mangled remains of the helicopter on a hill located in a densely forested area of the state brought to a conclusion a massive search-and-rescue operation by the government that began Wednesday and continued through the night. The helicopter is believed to have gone down halfway through its journey to a remote village in Chitoor district, a two-hour flight from the state capital of Hyderabad, where Reddy was going to attend a function. Reddy’s co-passengers, two government officials and two pilots, also perished in the crash, whose cause has yet to be determined. Maoist rebels who populate the area where the chopper crashed were reportedly not involved in any way. The popular politician’s tragic dea
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) – Rescuers on Thursday found the helicopter of Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S.R. Reddy in tiger-infested jungle hills after it went missing for almost 24 hours but his fate was not known, officials said. Reddy is an influential political leader who helped spur a Congress party-led coalition to victory in a general election in May. Reddy was on a tour of a rural district when his Bell-430 helicopter went missing on Wednesday over a dense swathe of forest known to be a tiger habitat and a stronghold of Maoist rebels. “We have located the helicopter, it is on top of a hill … our helicopters are there. We are trying to find out if there are any survivors,” Air Commodore Sagar Bharati said. Home Ministry officials said the helicopter was damaged but they gave no details. Some Indian news channels, quoting unidentified government sources, said the helicopter had been reduced to a mangled mass of metal and survivors were unlikely. It was not known why the helic
