new delhi : Group Captain Varun Singh, the only survivor of the helicopter crash in which Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and 12 others were killed, is critical and has been airlifted to Bengaluru.
An ambulance took Group Captain Singh from a military hospital in Wellington to the Sulur Air Base, from where he was airlifted to Bengaluru. He will be treated at the Command Hospital in Bengaluru.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told parliament this morning that Group Captain Singh is on life support and “all efforts are being made to save him”.
Group Captain Singh was taken from the crash site to the military hospital in Wellington with severe burn injuries. His father, Colonel KP Singh (retired), had said that he would be shifted to Bengaluru.
“He is being shifted to Bengaluru. I have reached Wellington,” Col Singh was quoted as saying by PTI.
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