Srinagar, November 3

Tributes were paid on behalf of the Directorate of Public Relations (DPR), Ministry of Defence, to Major P Purushottam, who along with five soldiers was killed in a fidayeen attack on this day in 1999, in Srinagar today.In a solemn ceremony at Badami Bagh Cantonment, public relations officers in Srinagar paid tributes to late Major Purushottam.“Major P Purushottam, who was posted as public relations officer (Defence), along with five of his comrades bravely fought with the terrorists, who had launched a fidayeen attack on his office on the evening of November 3 in 1999. Having been engaged in a hand to hand fight with the terrorists, they sacrificed their lives trying to save mediapersons,” a defence spokesman said. — TNS