IAF officer killed in J&K chopper crash to be cremated today

Superintendent of Police (City) Rajesh Kumar Singh informed that the cremation of Pankaj Nauhar will take place today as the body reached late in the night. His body was brought from Agra and kept in a military hospital.

Two pilots had died after a the chopper that took off from Srinagar airbase, crashed in an open field in Budgam. (ANI/ FILE)

Mathura: The mortal remains of an Indian Air Force officer, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district, reached late Thursday evening in Agra. Superintendent of Police (City) Rajesh Kumar Singh informed that the cremation of Pankaj Nauhar will take place today as the body reached late in the night. His body was brought from Agra and kept in a military hospital. The body will be taken to his native Jarelia village in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district on Wednesday morning for cremation, the officer added. On Wednesday, an IAF helicopter crashed in Budgam, killing both its pilots and four others on board besides a local resident.