All seven people on a helicopter in northern India were killed early on Sunday when it crashed while ferrying passengers on a popular Hindu pilgrimage route in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, officials said.

A helicopter carrying a number of people to holy sites in the Himalayan mountains in India has crashed, killing seven people. Passengers on the small Bell 407 helicopter included one child, when it went down in a forested area.

Seven people have died in a helicopter crash in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials have said. According to local media reports, the aircraft was flying from Kedarnath along a popular Hindu pilgrimage route in the Himalayan mountains.