An Army Jawan Gets a Hero's Welcome In Kashmir, And A Tearful Goodbye | Read

Kashmir has seen massive turnouts in funerals of militants. But on Friday, thousands came out at the funeral of an army soldier killed by militants. Lance Naik Ghulam Mohiuddin Rather, a Kashmiri, was killed when an army convoy was ambushed at Shopian in south Kashmir on Wednesday night. He had taken six bullets in his leg and lost too much blood. He, like the two other jawans, did not make it. On Friday, the 35-year-old was carried back home by his colleagues from the army, in a coffin draped in the tricolour.