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 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.

All seven people on a helicopter in northern India were killed early on Sunday when it crashed while ferrying passengers on a popular Hindu pilgrimage route in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, officials said.