Panipat villagers bid adieu to Navy man who died in INS Ranvir blast

Panipat, January 20

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Krishan Kumar, Master Chief Petty Officer-1 of Indian Navy who was died in an explosion two days ago onboard INS Ranvir, a warship docked at the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai, was cremated with full state and military honours at his native village Sutana of Madlauda block in the district on Thursday. His elder son Abhishek Kaushik lit the pyre.

Krishan Kumar was one of three Navy personnel who died in the explosion.

Hundreds of people gathered in the village to bid a tearful adieu to the 47-year-old braveheart.

The body was taken to Sutana in a military vehicle in a cavalcade amid slogans of ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’. It reached the village in the afternoon from the airport at Palam in Delhi.

The villagers showered flowers from their roofs to pay tributes during Krishan Kumar’s last journey. —