The mortal remains of the soldiers who laid down their lives fighting the Chinese Army in Galwan Valley in Ladakh were taken to their native places on Wednesday.
For many of the bereaved families the agonising wait started on Tuesday evening when they were informed by senior Army officials about the death of 20 soldiers in the violent clashes with the Chinese army along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh a day earlier.
Twenty Indian Army personnel, including a commanding officer (CO), were killed in a fierce clash with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night, the biggest military confrontation in over five decades that has significantly escalated the already volatile border standoff in the region.
In heart-wrenching scenes reminiscent of the aftermath of the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed, coffins of soldiers arrived in several states for the last rites with full military honours.
Among those killed, five soldiers were from Bihar, four from Punjab, two each from Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal and one each from Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.
20 BRAVEHEARTS WHO LOST LIVES FIGHTING THE CHINESE IN LADAKH:
1. Colonel B Santosh Babu
2. Naib Subedar Nuduram Soren
3. Naib Subedar Mandeep Singh
4. Naib Subedar Satnam Singh
5. Havildar K Palani
6. Havildar Sunil Kuma
7. Havildar Bipul Roy
8. Naik Deepak Kumar
9. Sepoy Rajesh Orang
10. Sepoy Kundan Kumar Ojha
11. Sepoy Ganesh Ram
