PATNA: Four of the 18 jawans martyred in fidayeen attack at the Uri army base in Jammu and Kashmir were from Bihar and 16 slain soldiers belonged to the 6th battalion of Bihar Regiment Centre (BRC).
Seven bodies of the martyred jawans, three from Bihar and two each from Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, reached Varanasi in an AN 32 aircraft of Indian Air Force from where their coffins were being carried for the last journey.
Bodies of Havildar Ashok Kumar, Sepoy Rakesh Singh, Naik S K Vidyarthi (from Bihar), Sepoy Javra Munda and Naiman Kujur (from Jharkhand) and Ganesh Shankar and Harinder Yadav from Uttar Pradesh were received at the airport by Brig N Rajkumar and a host of army officers and soldiers.
After giving them a guard of honour, coffins of the slain soldiers wrapped in the Tricolour were kept on flower-bedecked army trucks before they headed for their respective villages. Friends, relatives and a large number of people bade a tearful farewell to the slain soldiers.
A deputy commandant rank officer along with jawans of BRC accompanied each body in the last journey of the dead jawans to their respective villages. “We salute the martyrs! this is the hallmark of Indian soldier. We pay our heartfelt condolences to the families of martyrs who laid down their lives in the line of duty,” Brig RajKumar said. (AGENCIES)
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