The body of India's National Security Guard commando, Niranjan Kumar, is carried by Indian soldiers as they pay their last respects in Bangalore.
The body of Lt. Colonel E.K. Niranjan, a bomb expert with the National Security Guard who was killed while defusing a grenade at the scene of the terror attack at Pathankot IAF base, was brought to Bengaluru from where it was to be taken to his hometown Palakkad in Kerala.
Teary-eyed people filed past the body as the martyr’s family members sat near it. “He was always interested in the army. I am proud of his sacrifice,” Niranjan’s father Sivarajan said.
Niranjan’s sister said, “I look at him as Arjuna who fought for his
karmabhoomi.”
He hailed from Palakkad in Kerala and is survived by his wife Dr. Radhika and a 18-month-old daughter.
The body of Lt. Col. Niranjan, NSG (National Security Gaurd) kept at BEL school ground for public to pay their last respects, in Bangalore. Photo: K. Murali Kumar
Radhika looks at the coffin of her husband and India's National Security Guard commando, Niranjan Kumar, who was among those killed in the attack on the Pathankot air force base after the body was brought to Bangalore.
Heartrending scenes were witnessed on Monday as martyrs of Pathankot terror attack were given a final farewell with full military honours in presence of hundreds of people who converged to pay their tributes to the bravehearts.
Slogans of ‘
Bharat Mata ki Jai’ rent the air as the body of Garud commando Gursewak Singh, draped in the tricolour, reached his native Garnala village near Ambala, while the family members of the young Sikh, who was married in November, were inconsolable.
Haryana Ministers Anil Vij and Abhimanyu were present to pay tributes along with senior officers from the Air Force, besides personnel from the army, police and civil administration.
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Atleast Congress government issues a "Strong Statement" after these attacks and stops bus train services etc, What does our 56 inch guy got !
