Havaldar Roshan Lal who was martyred in the Pakistan firing told his son to ‘study seriously for exams’ on the same morning he was killed. He hailed from Nichla village in Ghagwal tehsil of Samba district in Jammu.
“He died in a proxy war,” said Darshan Kumar, his younger brother who himself works with the paramilitary Central Industrial Security Force and believes his brother would have inflicted heavy damage on the Pakistani side in a regular war. Lal joined the army in 1995 and he is survived by his father, wife and two children.
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“My father talked to me on Sunday morning and asked both of us to study seriously for the final exams,” said Abhinandan, a Class 10 student at the Army School in Samba. His sister, Artika, is in Class 8.
Captain Kapil Kundu, who was martyred along with the other Jawans, was just short of six days for his 23rd birthday. He hailed from Ransika village of Gurgaon district. The two other rifleman who died with them were Ram Avtar and Shubam Singh.
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Nineteen people, including 12 security personnel, have been killed this year. Heavy shelling has also forced villagers living along the border to move to safer places and schools have been shut in many areas.