Local officials said the helicopter was flying from the town of Kedarnath to Guptkashi, which is a prominent Hindu pilgrimage site in the Himalayas. It went down in a forested are

A helicopter carrying a number of people to holy sites in the Himalayan mountains in India has crashed, killing seven people. Passengers on the small Bell 407 helicopter included one child, when it went down in a forested area.

A tragic helicopter crash in northern India on June 15 resulted in the deaths of a pilot and six passengers on their way to Hindu religious sites in the Himalayan mountains.