The wreckage of an Indian Air Force chopper which went missing a day ago near the country’s border with China has been found, police said Wednesday.
There were three people on board the Advanced Light Helicopter when it lost contact Tuesday in India’s remote northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh in bad weather.
“The wreckage has been seen in the jungle in a deep gorge,” Sandeep Goel, the state police chief, told AFP.
“So far we have not been able to reach the wreckage spot so we cannot comment on the casualties.”
The helicopter was on a mission to evacuate residents from flood-affected regions.
Arunachal Pradesh as well as some other neighbouring states have been reeling under heavy monsoon rains that have triggered landslides and floods.
Arunachal Pradesh is at the centre of a border dispute between India and China who regularly accuse each other of making illegal troop encroachments.
Their mistrust stems from a brief war in 1962 over the state which has a large ethnic Tibetan population.
The standoff has intensified in recent days with the two sides trading stern diplomatic warnings over a remote scrap of territory where the frontiers of China, India and Bhutan meet.
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