{"id":4561,"date":"2011-04-19T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.feedburner.com:\/\/789aed6eb0ebde72e1a1f3daa59991d0"},"modified":"2011-04-19T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:00:11","slug":"helicopter-crashes-in-arunachal-pradesh-killing-17-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2011\/04\/19\/helicopter-crashes-in-arunachal-pradesh-killing-17-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter crashes in Arunachal Pradesh killing 17 tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_product='wpp-252';<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=kanglaonline\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>GUWAHATI, April 19 (Reuters): A helicopter packed with tourists crashed on Tuesday in mountains near the Chinese border and 17 people were killed, police said.<br \/> The helicopter was carrying 23 people and caught fire as it was preparing to land in Arunachal Pradesh. It crashed into a gorge.<br \/> &#8220;Six people have been rescued with severe burn injuries,&#8221; said G. Padu, a senior civil servant in the Tawang district where the crash took place. &#8220;The rest of them are dead. Efforts are on to recover their bodies.&#8221;<br \/> The death toll was likely to rise, Padu said.<br \/> There were 18 passengers, including two children, and five crew members on the Mi-17 helicopter, owned by the state-owned Pawan Hans transport company.<br \/> The Russian-made helicopter had flown from Guwahati, the region`s main city, to Tawang, where there is a famous Buddhist monastery. All of the passengers were Indian tourists.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~4\/AMjCywSbnmY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/AMjCywSbnmY\/\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/AMjCywSbnmY\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, April 19 (Reuters): A helicopter packed with tourists crashed on Tuesday in mountains near the Chinese border and 17 people were killed, police said. The helicopter was carrying 23&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/04\/helicopter-crashes-in-arunachal-pradesh-killing-17-tourists\/\">Read more <span>&#187;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[330,41],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4569,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}