Indian chopper crashes

SRINAGAR (Agencies) - An Indian military helicopter crash in Occupied Kashmir killed two pilots and an injured soldier who was being evacuated, the army said on Saturday.

“The crash took place in Held Kashmir’s Ladakh region late Friday,” spokesman SD Goswami said in Srinagar. The Russian-built helicopter was carrying the soldier from a frontline unit to the garrison town of Leh, 430 kilometres northeast of Srinagar when it crashed into a mountain.

“The bodies were recovered from the crash site on a high mountain pass,” Goswami said.