Goodbye, Major Dhoundiyal

February 19, 2019 10:00

Another day, another funeral in Uttarakhand. Just as the state had come to terms with the death of Major Chitresh Bisht who was killed at the Line of Control over the weekend, it received the news of another's death -- Major Vibhuti Dhoundiyal.

Major Dhoundiyal had died in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama yesterday. He was just 34 years old. Major Dhoundiyal, a resident of Dehradun, is survived by his wife Nikita Kaul.

He was among four army men killed in an encounter with Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists in Pulwama just a short distance away from the spot where over 40 Central Reserve Police Force jawans were killed last week in a suicide attack by the Pakistan-based terrorist group.

Major Chitresh Bisht was killed on Saturday while defusing a mine on the Line of Control in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district on Saturday. He was cremated in Haridwar on Monday afternoon.

Image: Nikita Kaul salutes her husband's body in a final farewell. Major Dhoundiyal was killed in an encounter yesterday. Pic: ANI

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