<p>A 29-year-old soldier from Jagapura village in the taluk is among those killed in the chopper crash that occurred during operations to rescue those stranded in the Uttarakhand floods.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A pall of gloom has descended on the village, following the death of Basavaraja Tulasappa Yeragatti. <br /><br />He was serving in the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). <br /><br />Yeragatti had joined the ITBP in 2007 and was serving in the eighth battalion of the NDRF in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.<br /><br />Efforts are on to trace Yeragatti’s body, Prahlad S K, the deceased soldier’s colleague hailing from Shyagoti in the district told Deccan Herald. He has been assigned the responsibility to bring home the soldier’s body.<br /><br />Yeragatti’s childhood friend Shivananda Dibbadamani requested mediapersons not to inform Yeragatti’s parents about the tragedy. <br /><br />However, the soldier’s family got wind of it given the gloomy atmosphere in the village.</p>
<p>A 29-year-old soldier from Jagapura village in the taluk is among those killed in the chopper crash that occurred during operations to rescue those stranded in the Uttarakhand floods.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A pall of gloom has descended on the village, following the death of Basavaraja Tulasappa Yeragatti. <br /><br />He was serving in the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). <br /><br />Yeragatti had joined the ITBP in 2007 and was serving in the eighth battalion of the NDRF in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.<br /><br />Efforts are on to trace Yeragatti’s body, Prahlad S K, the deceased soldier’s colleague hailing from Shyagoti in the district told Deccan Herald. He has been assigned the responsibility to bring home the soldier’s body.<br /><br />Yeragatti’s childhood friend Shivananda Dibbadamani requested mediapersons not to inform Yeragatti’s parents about the tragedy. <br /><br />However, the soldier’s family got wind of it given the gloomy atmosphere in the village.</p>
