Officers pay last respects to Lieutenant Narender Kumar at his native village Kolni in Mandi on Wednesday. Photo: Jai Kumar

Mandi, November 23

The last rites of Lieutenant Narender Kumar was performed today with military honours at his native Kolni village, under Sarkaghat Sub-division of Mandi district. He was killed when the Indore-Patna Express derailed near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday morning.The victim’s body was brought to the village this morning. A large number of people from his village and adjacent areas gathered at the funeral to pay respects to the departed soldier.MLA Col Inder Singh and other local leaders also attended the funeral and expressed condolences to the aggrieved family.The Lieutenant had joined the Army seven months ago after passing out of the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun. He did his secondary education from Senior Secondary School, Kolni, and completed his B-Tech from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology in Punjab. He was posted in 25 Grenadier Battalion at Averi and was travelling in the train to Lucknow along with his colleagues when the train met with the accident. — TNS