| Noted industrialist and Haryana power minister O P Jindal and Haryana agriculture minister Surender Singh were killed on the spot when the helicopter they were travelling crashed in a village about 40 km from here. |
| Two persons - Ved Goyal, a relative of Jindal, and head constable Vinod Kumar - who were also on board the helicopter belonging to the Rs 10,000 crore Jindal conglomerate were injured in the crash that occurred at around 1230 hrs in Menghi village. |
| The pilot, T S Chauhan, died on way to the hospital. Goyal and Kumar have been admitted to a private hospital here. |
| The bodies of Surender Singh, 59, and Jindal, 75, were taken to the civil hospital here. |
| Jindal's son and MP Naveen Jindal has already reached the spot. Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda along with AICC general secretaries Janardhnan Dwivedi and Ashok Gehlot also flew to the spot. |
| Senior Superintendent of Police S A Rizvi said the exact cause of the crash was not known, but it appeared that the engine of the helicopter stopped functioning. |
| Rizvi, quoting villagers, said they noticed fire in the helicopter just before it crashed. |
| The cremation of Jindal and Surender Singh would take place tomorrow in Hissar and Bhiwani. |
| Surender Singh and O P Jindal were inducted into the Hooda cabinet after the Congress returned to power in Haryana after nine years. |
| UP chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has asked state parliamentary affairs minister Azam Khan to rush to the accident site . |
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