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.

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.