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Meanwhile Deputy Commissioner papum Pare requested NDRF to detail one platoon of NDRF personnel alongwith equipments for assisting the rescue team of ITBP and Police personnel. Retrieving team comprising of Papum Pare police personnel, IAF Personnel, NDRF and local volunteers will leave for the located spot at SOPO YUHA at the first light of the day tomorrow on 6/7/17. AIGP[E] and SP Papum Pare are monitoring the retrieving team.
An Indian Air Force (IAF)’s helicopter with three on board went missing on Tuesday near Sagalee in the Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh, according to defence sources.
The chopper was evacuating people, stranded at Sagalee due to landslides, triggered by rains. Sagalee is just north of Itanagar, Dambuk in Lower Dibang Valley is about 350 km east of here.
The Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) was on a flood relief mission. It took off from the Tezpur airbase around 3.30 pm, on Tuesday and lost contact with ATC around 4 pm.