MADURAI: "When will see you again?" kin and friends of slain CRPF personnel G Subramanian asked as they were inconsolably in tears on seeing the coffin with his body when it was kept at the Madurai International Airport before it was taken to his native village Savalapperi on road Saturday afternoon. He was among the more than 40 CRPF personnel killed in the suicide car bombing in Kashmir’s Pulwama , on Thursday.The special aircraft carrying his mortal remains with that of a few other martyrs landed in Madurai around 12.45 after handing over his colleague Sivachandran’s body to his kin at the Trichy airport. On reaching Madurai airport the coffin with his mortal remains was brought to a table kept to place it amidst ‘veera vanakkam (bravery salute) to the Tuticorin hero’ slogans raised by people gathered to pay their last respect.Union minister for shipping and finance Pon Radhakrishnan first placed a wreath and paid tribute to the martyr, followed by Madurai district collector S Natarajan, South Zone IG KP Shanmuga Rajeswaran, Madurai police commissioner S Davidson Devasirvatham, DIG of Madurai range Pradip Kumar, Madurai SP N Manivannan, CPI (M) state secretary K Balakrishnan and airport director VV Rao.A few minutes later Subramanian’s body was taken to a van, in which it was taken on a road to Savalapperi village near Kayathar in Tuticorin district on road around 1.15 pm. Minister Pon Radhakrishnan and four-wheelers with BJP cadres accompanied the convoy till Savalapperi. The aircraft that came with his body flew to Calicut to handover the body of another CRPF personnel of Kerala who was also killed in the attack.

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