{"id":49332,"date":"2021-12-09T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/gen-rawat-was-alive-asking-for-water-says-villager\/"},"modified":"2021-12-09T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:52:35","slug":"gen-rawat-was-alive-asking-for-water-says-villager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=49332","title":{"rendered":"Gen Rawat was alive, asking for water, says villager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>He, however said that he did not know that it was General Rawat and could only identify him when the photographs of the late officer came out.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Chennai, Dec 9:<\/strong><\/em> A villager, who was among the group of people who first reached the helicopter crash site at Kattari Park in Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Coonoor, on Thursday said that Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat, was alive when they found him and was asking for water.<br \/>Talking to media persons at Coonoor, Sivakumar said: &#8220;We reached the spot immediately after the crash and found three people alive and of them, one was asking for water. We didn&#8217;t have water but we immediately put the three of them on separate blankets and took them to the Wellington Army hospital.&#8221;<br \/>He, however said that he did not know that it was General Rawat and could only identify him when the photographs of the late officer came out.<br \/>Sivakumar, Krishna Moorthy, and M. Ravikumar were the first people to reach the spot on hearing the crash, only to find the copter burning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He, however said that he did not know that it was General Rawat and could only identify him when the photographs of the late officer came out. Chennai, Dec 9: A villager, who was among the group of people who first reached the helicopter crash site at Kattari Park in Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Coonoor, on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}