Hyderabad, Sep 13 - Andhra Pradesh Home Minister P.Sabita Indra Reddy Sunday visited the hillock in Nallamalla forests in Kurnool district where a helicopter crash Sep 2 killed Chief Minister Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy and four others.

It was an emotional visit for the minister, whom the late chief minister called his younger sister and would launch all his programmes and campaigns from her assembly constituency of Chevella.

With tears in her eyes, Sabita, who was appointed the state's first woman home minister after Congress retained power in the recent assembly elections, paid floral tributes to YSR, as the chief minister was popularly known.

Sabita, the first minister to visit the crash site, announced that the government would construct a befitting memorial for the late chief minister.

She told reporters that the investigations into the crash were on and some vital clues were already collected.

The minister said the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) had launched its probe besides the investigations by the federal Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the atate's Crime Investigation Department (CID).