RANCHI, Apr 9:
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today announced Rs three lakh more to each of the families of three soldiers who died in avalanche strike in Jammu and Kashmir on April 6.
This amount would be given to the next of kin of the deceased soldiers, who were from Jharkhand, in addition to the Rs 2 lakh compensation Das had announced earlier, an official release said here.
The Rs three lakh would be given to them from the “Mukhya Mantri Vivek Anudan” (Chief Minister’s Discretion Grant).
Havaldar Prabhu Kirke (43), Lance Naik Bihari Marandi (34) and Sepoy Kuldeep Lakra (22) died when avalanche struck their post in the Batalik sector of Kargil on April 6. The bodies were found trapped under 15 feet of snow the next day. (PTI)
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