PM Modi pays homage to four soldiers martyred in Kashmir encounters

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to four soldiers, including a Major, who were killed in two separate encounters in Kashmir on Tuesday. He laid wreaths on the bodies of the soldiers at thePalam Airport here where the mortal remains were broughttoday. On the occasion, Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat briefed the Prime Minister on the incidents in which the casualties took place.

Major S Dahiya and three other soldiers were killed on Tuesday in two encounters in Kashmir. Dahiya was killed in an encounter in Kralgund area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district where security forces gunned down three militants hiding in a residential house.

Three other army men were killed in an encounter in Hajinarea of Bandipora district after security forces cordoned off the area following information about presence of militants in the area.