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MiG 21 crashes, pilot injured

A MiG 21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed in flames Wednesday night at a village in Cooch Behar district and broke up into three parts when it hit the ground with the pilot suffering serious injuries after bailing out.

The police said the 23-year old Flight Lt Srivastava was admitted to Tufanganj Hospital with severe injuries.

The fighter from the Hasimara Air Force Base in north Bengal came down in a ball of fire at 9:15 pm slamming into a school building and disintegrated into three portions with part of the wreckage hitting an adjacent building while the rest were strewn over a one km radius in surrounding mustard and paddy fields nearby at Bajrapur village near the Assam-Bengal border, the police said.

There was, however, no casualty on the ground, the sources said.

The reasons for the crash were not known.

The crash site had been cordoned off by the police.

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