Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tribute to Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and 12 others who were killed in yesterday's chopper crash, at the Palam airport in Delhi. The bodies of Gen Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and other victims were brought to Delhi in the evening.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who earlier in the day briefed the Parliament on the chopper crash, also paid tribute to the chopper crash victims along with the chiefs of the three armed forces.
Earlier in the day, an ambulance carrying the body of one of the crash victims met with a minor accident today near Sulur in Tamil Nadu, following which the body was shifted to another standby ambulance in the convoy. The bodies were then flown to Delhi from the Sulur Air Base.
Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the fatal crash, was airlifted to a hospital in Bengaluru from a military hospital in Wellington. He will be treated at the Command Hospital in Bengaluru.
General Rawat's funeral will take place with full military honours on Friday in Delhi.
