Martyred NSG officer to be cremated today
Lt. Col. Kumar, a bomb disposal expert, was killed on Sunday morning while defusing a grenade after terrorists attacked an Indian Air Force base in Punjab's Pathankot. Four jawans were also injured in the grenade blast.
Lt. Col. Kumar, 34, is survived by his father, his wife Dr KG Radhika and a two-year-old daughter. The Army officer was promoted to Lt. Col. in the elite NSG a few months ago.
The officer's father EK Sivaranjan brought his son's body, wrapped in the Indian Tricolour, to Bengaluru, where the family has lived for many years.
Fellow Army officers in uniform and many others paid tribute to the martyr at his home in Dodda Bommasandra.
He was among seven security personnel killed in the terrorist attack at the Pathankot air base.
Five terrorists have been killed in the gun-battle. .
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