Congress claimed that AP CM Y.S. Rajashekhara Reddy is dead after the helicopter crashed into the forest. Five dead bodies have been found in the debris.

It was the time 8:45am when chopper started from Hyderabad and was sheduled to reach Chittur at 10:45am. At around 9:30am Helicopter lost communication with the base. Media reported that CM talked on Sattelite phone to his close friend and said they have landed in dense forest and are safe. After sometime news came from Air traffic controller that the chopper was out of radar due to heavy rains and there was no contact at all.

Massive search operations have been carried out for almost 24 Hrs, with 5000 CRPF, Fighter jet mapping the area, Helicopters etc… Due to heavy rains night search operations were carried out cautiously. Also as the are is infested by Naxals and wild animals, it was very difficult and operations were aborted for some time.

Today early morning when again search operations were started, information was received that the helicopter is located and commondos are deputed to the place so that they can be dropped from helicopters.

It is then claimed that they have found five dead bodies in the chopper crash.