Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, Dec 25: A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Army, who was killed in a firing incident in Samba district, was cremated with full military honours at his native village Sarla in Reasi district on Thursday.
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Subedar Surjeet Singh died in a firing incident inside a military camp in Samba late Tuesday night. A pall of gloom descended his native village as mortal remains of the JCO were brought to his home, where senior Army, police and civil officers laid wreaths on his coffin.
Thousands of people from various parts of the district thronged the village and joined the funeral procession amid raising of slogans in praise of the martyred officer, Indian Army and the country.
The mortal remains were cremated with full military honours after a gun salute and the sounding of the last bugle. The Rising Star Corps of the Indian Army paid a solemn tribute to braveheart Subedar Surjeet Singh.
“The Indian Army stands firmly with the bereaved family in this hour of grief and assures unwavering support,” it said in a post on X.
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