IAF chopper crash | Group Captain Varun Singh cremated with full military honours in Bhopal
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IAF chopper crash | Group Captain Varun Singh cremated with full military honours in Bhopal

The Hindu  

The mortal remains of Group Captain Varun Singh, who succumbed to his injuries after surviving last week’s helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu, were consigned to flames with full military and State honours in Bhopal on December 17. Wrapped in a tricolour, the mortal remains were brought to the cremation ground in Bairagarh area in Bhopal from the Military Hospital in a flower-bedecked Army truck with people raising slogans of ‘ Bharat mata ki jai ’ and ‘ Group Captain Varun Singh amar rahe ’. After the rituals were performed by a priest and the family members, his younger brother, a Lieutenant Commander in the Indian Navy, and his son lit the funeral pyre amid the slogans of ‘ Group Captain Varun Singh amar rahe ’ raised by the people. Group Captain Varun Singh died at a military hospital in Bengaluru on Wednesday after surviving December 8 helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu that killed Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 armed forces personnel.

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