Bodies of 10 personnel sent for post-mortem

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The bodies of all the 10 men and officers of the Border Security Force (BSF) who were killed in a plane crash on Tuesday morning near the boundary of Indira Gandhi International

Airport adjacent to Bagdola village crossing in Sector-8 Dawarka have been sent for postmortem at the Safdarjung Hospital.

While three bodies were found just outside a water tank in a completely charred condition, the rest were pulled out of the water tank, a senior Delhi Police officer who was present on the crash site said.

All the 10 people on board a small Ranchi-bound BSF plane carrying technical personnel were killed when it crashed near Dwarka this morning and burst into flames just outside the IGI airport  shortly after  it take-off.

Immediately after the crash took place, a large contingent from police and personnel from civil defence was pressed into service.

A team of CISF personnel and disaster management as well as officials from Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation also rushed to accident site, they said.

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