Army helicopter crash: All bodies shifted to CMH Abbottabad

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MANSEHRA: Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that the rescue operation has been completed of Army Helicopter crash in Mansehra city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Thursday.

As many as 12 personnel were killed following an Army Aviation MI-17 helicopter crash that took off from Chaklala air base Rawalpindi to carry medical supplies for flood victims in Gilgit.

Confirming the accident, the military sources said that pilots Major Humayon Tipu, Major Muzammil, Maj Dr Usman, Dr Maj Shehzad, Captain Atif, Lance Naik Maqbool, Lance Naik Amir Saeed, Sepoy Waqar, Havaldar Munir Abbas, Havaldar Asif, Sepoy Rehmatullah,  and nursing staff Amanullah had embraced martyrdom in the tragic accident.

Bodies of the martyred officials have been shifted to CMH Abbottabad.