Rajnath pays tribute amid chants of 'veer jawan amar rahe'

February 15, 2019 15:23

In Budgam, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and J-K DGP Dilbagh Singh lend a shoulder to the coffin of the CRPF jawans martyred in the terror attack at Pulwama. J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik and Army's Northern Command chief Lt Gen Ranbir Singh also paid tribute to the CRPF personnel who lost their lives in the Pulwama attack.

The coffins carrying the remains of the 41 CRPF jawans will be taken to their homes after the ceremony. Slogans of 'Veer Jawan Amar Rahe' were raised at the CRPF camp in Budgam as the wreath laying ceremony before the rows upon rows of coffins draped in the tricolour.

CRPF Director General RR Bhatnagar and senior officials of the force have left for Kashmir as part of a team led by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to assess the situation. They are also expected to meet the injured who are admitted to the 92 base hospital of the Army in Srinagar.

More than 2,500 CRPF personnel, many of them returning from leave to rejoin duty in the Valley, were travelling in the convoy of 78 vehicles when they were ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway at Latoomode in Awantipora in south Kashmir around 3.15 pm on Thursday.

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