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Family of a soldier killed in convoy attack

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Dehradun:

A family struggling to cope with the loss of a 33-year-old major in the Indian Army suffered another severe shock when his cousin, 26-year-old Adarsh ​​​​Negi, was killed in an attack on a military convoy in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.

“Just two months ago, we lost a son who died in the service of his country. He was a major. Now we have come to know that five soldiers from the Pauri-Garhwal region were killed in a terrorist attack on a convoy in Jammu and Kashmir in which five people from our region, including Adarsh, died,” said the gunman’s paternal uncle, Balwant Singh Negi, a resident of Thati Dagar village in Tehri district of Uttarakhand.

Balwant Negi’s son, Major Pranay Negi, served in Leh and died on April 30.

Adarsh ​​​​Negi was one of five soldiers killed in a terrorist attack on a military convoy in Machedi area of ​​Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday afternoon. The terrorists lobbed a grenade at the army vehicles, which were on a routine patrol on the Machedi-Kindli-Malhar road, about 150 km from Kathua, and then opened fire.

Negi joined the Garhwal Rifles in 2018 and leaves behind his father, a farmer, mother, brother and elder sister. His brother works in Chennai while his elder sister is married.

Even as the wailing of the women in the family could be heard in the background, the soldier’s uncle continued, “He was a very smart boy and completed his secondary schooling from a village school. After that, he did his bachelor’s degree from Garhwal University. He was always very fit and I told him to maintain his physical fitness, which eventually got him a job in the army and now he has given his life for the country.”

“We have lost two sons in two months. I would like to request the government to take strong action. Jobs are scarce and children who go from Garhwal and Kumaon to serve the country often return as martyrs. This is tearing the whole family apart,” he said.

Adarsh ​​Negi’s father, Dalbir Singh Negi, said, “We spoke to him last Sunday. He said he was eating and was on his way to duty. He had come to the village to attend a wedding and left in March.”

The attack on the convoy on Monday was the second on the army in 48 hours. On Sunday, a soldier was injured when an army camp in Rajouri was attacked.

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