Police van escorting bodies of chopper crash involves in accident, 7 cops hurt

Chennai : Seven police personnel suffered minor injuries when a police van, part of the convoy escorting the
mortal remains of the IAF chopper crash to Sulur air base from Coonoor, met with an accident on the Ghat road today afternoon.

Police sources said the axle of the police van which was going behind the ambulances carrying the bodies of Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others, broke near a turn on the Parliyar ghat road, resulting in the accident.

The presence of mind of the van driver averted a major accident as he acted swiftly and brought the vehicle to a halt by hitting a roadside rock.

Seven police personnel suffered minor injuries in the accident.

Doctors, who were travelling in an ambulance which was coming behind the escort van, provided first aid and shifted the injured to the Mettupalayam government hospital for treatment.

However, the ambulances carrying the bodies of the chopper victims proceeded to Sulur air base without any hindrance as a large number of people, carrying National flags in their hands, lined up on both sides of the road all along the route and paid their tributes to the deceased.

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