AEROPLANE CRASHES INTO TROOPS
Terrible Tragedy in India FIFTEEN MEN KILLED; ELEVEN INJURED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright. (Received January 9, 7.45 p.m.) Calcutta, January 8. It is officially stated that. 15 men of the Balieeh Regiment were killed and 11 injured when an aeroplane of the Indian Air Force crashed into a platoon of troops on the march between Karachi and the Hubb River. Aircraft were practising machine-gun attacks on troops on the march, to which the troops were replying by imitation rille fire, when an aeroplane failed to recover from a‘dive and crashed into the troops. Flying-Officer 11. C. Sircar, who was piloting the machine, and his Indian N.C.O. observer, were both injured. it was exceedingly difficult to ascertain the number of casualties liecause many bodies were so cut to pieces that it was impossible to make complete identification.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 9
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140AEROPLANE CRASHES INTO TROOPS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 9
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