Anantapur, May 8 -- Anantapur MP G Lakshminarayan Valmiki's sister was killed and his brother-in-law was critically injured when the helicopter in which they were going to Gangotri crashed in a forest in Uttarakhand on Thursday.

Family members of MP Ambika G Lakshminarayana Valmiki told the media here on Thursday that Vedavati Kumari, the younger sister of MP Lakshminarayan, was killed and her husband Bhaskar suffered grievous injuries when the helicopter in which they were going to Gangotri in the Himalayas crashed.

Vedavatti Kumari, along with her husband Bhaskar, was on vacation, and the couple was going to Gangotri in the Uttarkashi region. As many as six people on board the helicopter were killed when the helicopter crashed in a fore...