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Watch: Rajnath Singh Gets Emotional Announcing Group Captain Varun Singh's Death
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The news of IAF Group Captain Varun Singh's death broke when Rajnath Singh was attending a public event in Dehradun.
Halting his speech midway at a public function in Dehradun, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday requested the people in the rally to pray for the departed soul as he got the news regarding the death of Indian Air Force (IAF) Group Captain Varun Singh. #WATCH | Uttarakhand: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh & others present at 'Shaheed Samman Yatra' event in Dehradun observe a minute's silence & pay tribute to Group Captain Varun Singh who passed away at Bengaluru Command Hospital today.#TamilNaduChopperCrashpic.twitter.com/1mjYQj6TH5
The news of IAF Group Captain Singh's death broke when Rajnath Singh was in Dehradun to attend the closing ceremony of a month-long "Shaheed Samman Yatra" and lay the foundation stone for 'Sainya Dham'.
Group Captain Singh, the lone survivor of the chopper crash that killed CDS General Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others last week, was under treatment at Command Hospital in Bengaluru.