Two ministers killed in Indian

Published April 1, 2005
NEW DELHI, March 31: A pilot and two provincial ministers, one a billionaire industrialist, were killed on Thursday when their helicopter crashed in a village in Uttar Pradesh. Haryana state power minister Om Prakash Jindal ? head of the 2.2-billion dollar steel manufacturing Jindal group ? his colleague, agriculture minister Surinder Singh, and the pilot died instantly when the French-made aircraft crashed near Gangoh after a mid-air engine failure, officials said.?AFP

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