A helicopter of the Indian Army’s aviation corps with at least five people on board crashed near the Ranjit Sagar Dam in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua on Tuesday morning, sources in the army said.

There were no immediate reports of any casualty. The dam is located about 30km from Pathankot. The accident took place around 10.40am during a routine sortie. The pilot and the co-pilot are missing and divers have been sent in to look for them.

The army did not release a statement till Tuesday evening and the exact number of people on board the chopper was also not clear.

Sources said the chopper belonged to the 254 Army Aviation Squadron and had taken off from the Mamun cantonment 10 minutes before it came down.