Senior journalist K Govindan Kutty dies after brief illness

K Govindan Kutty

Veteran journalist and author K Govindan Kutty has died after a brief illness here, family sources said on Thursday.

Kutty, 81, is survived by wife, son and daughter. He breathed his last at his residence here on February 18.

He was the journalist who broke the news of the air crash involving the then Prime Minister Morarji Desai in 1977 at Jorhat in Assam.

Desai had survived the crash. Kutty had a notable career as a reporter and editor in Thiruvananthapuram and New Delhi.

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