SRINAGAR, Aug 16: An Indian military helicopter crash in occupied Kashmir killed two pilots and an injured soldier who was being evacuated, the army said on Saturday.

“The crash took place in Kashmir’s Ladakh region late on Friday,” spokesman S.D. Goswami told AFP in occupied Srinagar.

The Russian-built helicopter was carrying the soldier from a frontline unit to the garrison town of Leh, 430km northeast of Srinagar when it crashed into a mountain.

“The bodies were recovered on Saturday from the crash site on a high mountain pass,” Goswami said.

Tens of thousands of Indian troops deployed around Ladakh on Pakistan’s borders are supplied by helicopters from a strategic airbase in Leh.—AFP