Thursday, October 13, 2011

Civilian choppers evacuate 66 people

GANGTOK, 01 Oct: Three civilian helicopters - 2 Pawan Hans with STDC and 1 chartered by a hydel company - still involved in relief operations in Sikkim, flew 28 sorties between them from Gangtok to Lachen, Lachung and Chungthang.
STDC’s Tejpal Pradhan informs that these helicopters evacuated 66 people from North Sikkim on their flights back on Saturday.
He informed that heli service is concentrating on relief operations and evacuations. He informed that that so far, 900 people were evacuated so far by these helicopters.

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