Thousands of people with wet eyes thronged Ghazipur district to have a last glimpse of two of the three martyrs whose bodies reached their native village amidst full military honour on Thursday evening. The people paid their homage and prayed for peace for the department souls. Both the martyr lost their lives in a gunbattle in Machil sector of Jammu & Kashmir.
Total three soldiers lost their lives on past Tuesday in cowardly anguish attack by Pakistani Army on patrolling party at line of control in Machhile sector of Jammu and Kashmir. Two of them hailed from Ghazipur district.
Reports from Ghaziapur confirmed that thousands and thousands of persons from Ghazipur and near-by districts turned up to express their grief at house of martyrs Manoj Kumar Kushwaha and Shashank Singh. Villages of both martyrs waited all through the day before their bodies arrived by a special Air Force plane later in the evening. Superintendent of Police Arvind Sen along with District Magistrate Sanjay Kumar Khatri, along with senior army officials reached at houses of martyrs to express their condolences.