Kathua terrorist ambush: With heavy hearts, U'khand lays martyrs to rest

The five soldiers from Uttarakhand killed in a terrorist ambush on an army convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua were cremated at their native places with full military honours in an emotionally charged atmosphere on Wednesday.

The quiet hill villages from where they hailed broke into loud wails of their grieving relatives as their bodies were brought home in coffins wrapped in the national flag.

Not only the residents of their own villages but also hundreds of those from neighbouring hamlets attended their funerals to bid a final farewell to the martyrs with a heavy heart. Heart rending videos of the parents and wives of the martyrs falling over the coffins carrying their mortal remains brought to tears anyone who saw them. As soon as the body of Havildar Kamal Singh reached his village Naudanu, loud cries of women gathered outside his home rent the air.