Locals showered flowers on the ambulance carrying the bodies of Chief of Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 other personnel who were killed in a horrific helicopter crash on Wednesday. Hundreds of people were chanting “Bharat Mata ki Jai” at the entrance of Sulur airbase in Tamil Nadu. The bodies were brought here from the Madras Regimental Center in the state’s Nilgiris district where Telangana Governor and Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and senior military officials paid their last respects to the slain personnel. Traffic was diverted on the route to avoid any inconvenience.
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