Govt to send CRPF personnel to trace YSR

Home Ministry officials said about 500 men of the Central Paramilitary Force will be pressed into search operation on the route over which Andhra Chief Minister was to fly. The troops will carry out a massive combing operation in the dense forests of naxal-infested Kurnool district.

The CRPF personnel will be called from neighbouring Chhattisgarh and Orissa, the officials said adding the first batch of these men is expected to reach soon.

Chief Minister's Principal Secretary S Subramanyam and Chief Security Officer A S C Wesley and two pilots were also on board the twin-engined government helicopter that lost contact at 9.35 AM when it was headed for Chitoor district, over 600 kilometres from Hyderabad.