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CWC to meet as PMO confirms death of Andhra CM, four others | The Working Committee of the Congress Party will meet in the national capital on Thursday to decide on the leadership issue in Andhra Pradesh after
the Prime Minister's Office confirmed that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara
Reddy had died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday. The PMO said that five bodies
had been found at the site where Reddy's chopper wreckage was discovered atop
a hill about 40 nautical miles from Andhra Pradesh's Kurnoool district. Along
with YSR, four others had died in the crash. They are: Dr P Subramanium, the special
secretary to the Chief Minister; ASC Wesley, Chief Security Officer; and two pilots.
Group Captain SK Bhatia and Captain MS Reddy. Various Congress leaders including
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, joined a cabinet meeting to discuss the incident
and it was confirmed that Gandhi and the Prime Minister will be going to Hyderabad
to condole the loss and oversee funeral arrangements. The government on Thursday
confirmed that the chopper was located atop the Serai Salem hill, at a distance
40 nautical miles (70 kms) east of Kurnool. Official sources also confirmed that
the chopper had indeed crash landed on the hillside. The helicopter carrying YSR
Reddy, two of his staff and two pilots dropped off the radar on Wednesday morning
due to bad weather conditions over the Naxal and tiger-infested Nalamalla forests.
The CM left Hyderabad onboard a six-seater Bell chopper at 8.35 a.m. bound for
Chittoor. Soon after the chopper lost contact, multiple agencies of the state
launched a massive hunt for possible wreckage in the desolate terrain. By evening,
it expanded into the country's biggest-ever search operation with satellites in
the sky joining remote sensing aircraft, fighter jets, unmanned aerial vehicles,
troops on the ground and even barefoot deer-hunting tribals with bows and arrows.
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