Search to locate bodies of IAF personnel on in river Chenab

The search operation to locate the bodies of rest of IAF personnel on board the chopper which crashed on Friday in river Chenab is still on, officials said here today.

Seventeen Navy divers, who have been called from New Delhi to locate the drowned chopper and fish out the rest of the three bodies, launched a massive search along with army jawans and civil defence personnel in river Chenab yesterday, they said, adding the search operation resumed this morning as well.

Bodies of Flight Lieutenant YS Tomar, warrant officer K Singh and Sargent Deepak have not been located so far, they said.

The MI-17 chopper, which had taken off from Jammu on a routine training sortie, crashed in river Chenab on Friday.

Body of Wing Commander Rajiv Garg was recovered on the same day. His cremation with full military honour took place at Shastri Nagar cremation ghat here yesterday.