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Sudhakara Jain

Farewell to mortal remains of Group Captain Varun Singh

A colleague places the cap of Group Captain Varun Singh on a casket containing his mortal remains, at Yelahanka Air Force Base Station in Bengaluru on December 16, 2021. (Source: Sudhakara Jain)

Colleagues, officials, family members and well-wishers bid farewell to Group Captain Varun Singh who succumbed to his injuries in a hospital in Bengaluru on December 15.

They saluted and offered floral tributes to the mortal remains at Yelahanka Air Force station in Bengaluru on December 16. Later, the mortal remains were airlifted to Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.

Group Captain Varun Singh was the lone survivor of the helicopter crash in which Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Bipin Rawat and 12 others lost their lives, near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on December 8.

 

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