TRAGEDY IN INDIA
AEROPLANE CRASHES FIFTEEN SOLDIERS KILLED ELEVEN OTHERS INJURED ACCIDENT AT MANOEUVRES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January 9, 5.5 p.m.) CALCUTTA. Jan. 8 It is officially stated that 15 men of the Baliech Regiment were killed and 11 injured when an aeroplane of the Indian Air Force crashed into a platoon of troops while the men were on the march between Karachi and the Hubb River. Aircraft were practising machinegun attacks on troops on the march, to which the troops were replying by imitation rifle fire, and when one aeroplane failed to recover from a dive it crashed into the troops. Flying-Officer H. C. Sircar, who was piloting the machine, and his Indian observer, a non-commissioned officer, were both injured. Many of the bodies were badly mutilated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22004, 10 January 1935, Page 9
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