Impassioned scenes of grief were witnessed as wreaths were laid at the mortal remains of eight police personnel and a civilian driver killed in a blast carried out by Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district.
As reported by PTI, Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, other senior state leaders and the inconsolable family members of the deceased paid homage at the wreath-laying ceremony in Dantewada, amid chants of Bharat Mata ki Jai and Vande Mataram.
The family members of the deceased, including women and children, were seen crying as women security personnel tried to console them.
After paying homage to the martyred personnel, Sai said, “The sacrifices of the jawans will not go in vain and we will be successful in establishing peace in the state.”
Chief Minister Sai, deputy CM Vijay Sharma and director general of police Ashok Juneja lent their shoulders to the mortal remains of jawans as they were shifted to vehicles to transport them to the native places of the deceased.
