40 soldiers to receive gallantry awards

Pune | Tuesday | 19th February, 2019

Summary:

The troops encountered heavy firing from close range.“Sepoy Mane sustained two bullet injuries on his left shoulder. Realising that the party was trapped in an ambush, he quickly took over a gun and started firing indiscriminately towards the direction of ambush. Realising danger to his comrades, he decided to move out of his cover and lobbed grenades, which created utter chaos among the intruders and forced them to flee. At that time, he was bleeding profusely and was fast losing consciousness. But they fired under barrel grenade launcher onto Mane..