Army pays tributes to IED blast victims

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, June 18

The Army on Tuesday paid tributes to three of its soldiers who were killed in two separate incidents in Kashmir Valley. At a ceremony in the Badamibagh cantonment here, Lt-Gen KJS Dhillon, Chinar Corps Commander, and all ranks paid homage to the three soldiers.

The three soldiers included havildar Amarjeet Kumar and naik Ajit Kumar Saboo, who were injured in the yesterday’s IED blast in Pulwama and later succumbed to their injuries.

Havildar Kumar, 35, had joined the Army in 2005 and hailed from Dighawlia village in Siwan district of Bihar. Naik Sahoo, 27, hailed from Badasuanalo village in Dhenknal district of Odisha. He had joined the Army in 2015.

The third soldier was rifleman Anil Kumar Jaswal, who had sustained a bullet injury in a counter-insurgency operation conducted in Marahom village of Anantnag district in which two militants were killed. He belonged to Saroh village of Una district of Himachal Pradesh.