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Army Major Kaustubh Rane's funeral: Thousands bid tearful goodbye
Updated On: 09 August, 2018 06:06 PM IST | | mid-day online desk
Scores of mourners thronged Rane's house in Shital Nagar area in Mira Road in the morning to catch the last glimpse. The funeral procession started from his residence around 9.30 am
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Major Kaustubh Rane, who was killed in the Gurez sector of Bandipora district in Jammu and Kashmir on August 4 during an operation to foil an infiltration bid, was bid a tearful adieu by mourners today. Major Rane was laid to rest with full military honours at a crematorium in Mira Road township in the district around 12.30 pm.
Scores of mourners thronged Rane's house in Shital Nagar area in Mira Road in the morning to catch the last glimpse of the martyred army man. The funeral procession started from his residence around 9.30 am. His body, kept in a casket draped in tricolour, was carried in a flower-bedecked truck to the crematorium. At a few junctions on the way, flowers were showered on the vehicle carrying the mortal remains.
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