Sonia, PM to leave for Hyderabad Friday

NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi will leave for Hyderabad Friday to attend the funeral of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.

According to official sources Thursday, the three leaders will leave for Hyderabad Friday morning to attend YSR’s state funeral.

The Andhra Pradesh chief minister and four others, including two pilots, were killed in a chopper crash in the state’s Nallamalla forest Wednesday. The wreckage and the bodies were found Thursday.