I saw him dying: Aide

I saw him dying: Aide
Islamabad, Feb. 3: Ever since Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose went missing in 1945, his disappearance has been the theme of many plausible theories, but a retired Pakistan Army Brigadier claims he saw Netaji engulfed in flames and burnt alive, after a plane carrying them crashed over Taiwan. The “extraordinary eyewi-tness account” of Brigadier Habibur-Rehman, who claims he was a close aide of Netaji, was written in detail by Pakistan Cricket Board Chief Shaharyar Khan in his new book Cricket: A Bridge of Peace.
“During one of our meetings, Rehman provided the eyewitness account of Netaji’s death,” he added. “Rehman told us he, along with Bose, had boarded the aircraft at Saigon and after a refuelling stop, the plane was flying over Northern Taiwan when one of the engines began to sputter.
“The plane rapidly lost height but the pilot managed to bring it down on a clearing, where it crashed into heavy undergrowth. He himself was thrown out of the plane. When he ran towards the plane to save his colleagues he saw the charred body of Bose lying beside the aircraft. Bose had seemingly died because his suit had caught fire and his body had been burnt bey-ond recognition.”