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Tears and tributes mark last rites of Poonch attack victims
Hindustan Times
|April 23, 2023
The last rites of the five soldiers who were killed in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch sector were performed with full state honours in their respective villages on Saturday.
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The deceased soldiers were Lance Naik Debashish Baswal from Odisha and Havaldar Mandeep Singh, Lance Naik Kulwant Singh, Sepoy Harkrishan Singh, and Sepoy Sewak Singh, all from Punjab.
At Alagum village in Odisha's Puri district, scores of people gathered to pay their final respects as Biswal's body arrived in an army convoy and was consigned to flames with full military honours.
Governor Ganeshi Lal and other dignitaries had paid their tributes to Biswal at Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar. "Debashish Amar Rahe" slogans rented the air as the convoy with Biswal's body travelled from Bhubaneswar to Puri.
This story is from the April 23, 2023 edition of Hindustan Times.
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