Two students among six killed in Srinagar boat mishap
At least six people, including two school children, were killed early morning on Tuesday when a boat ferrying them on the river Jhelum capsized in the outskirts of Srinagar.
Chinar Corps Commander Lieutenant General AK Bhat on Thursday paid tributes to martyr Lieutenant Ummer Fayaz on his first death anniversary. The 22-year-old Lt Ummer Fayaz was abducted by terrorists in Kulgam of South Kashmir and brutally killed by militants.
He was on leave and had gone to attend a marriage in the family in Shopian.
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Fayaz belonged to the Sursona village in the Kulgam district in South Kashmir and was at that time posted in the 2nd Rajputana Rifles in the border town of Akhnoor in Jammu.
Fayaz was commissioned on 10 December 2016 from the National Defence Academy and was set to head for the Young Officers Course in September this year.
Earlier, in an effort to honour the death of Lt Ummer Fayaz who was abducted and later killed by a group of militants in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Army on Saturday said a school had been renamed after him and his family was handed over a cheque for Rs 75 lakh.
One cheque for Rs 75 lakh from the Army Group Insurance Fund and another cheque for Rs 1 lakh from the martyr’s regiment — Rajputana Rifles were given to the family of Fayaz.
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