87 Army men laid down their lives in line of duty during 2017

HYDERABAD: As many as 87 Indian army men, including five majors, laid down their lives in the line of duty during the year 2017. The number is one more compared to the figure for the previous year. According to a list of ‘Martyrs 2017’ released by the Indian Army, many of those who laid down their lives belonged to the infantry.
The martyr's list include Thallapureddy Kishan Srinivas, a sepoy from Andhra Pradesh, Major Amitsagar, Major David Manlun, Major Kamlesh Pandey, Major Satish Dahiya, and Major L Rambo Singh, a lieutenant, Lt Ummer Faayaz, subedars, naiks, gunners, signalmen, lance naiks, riflemen, a captain, and naib subedars.The martyrs belonged to the infantry, artillery, signal, engineering, army air defence, ASC, and EME.
Sepoy Thallpureddy Kishan Srinivas of Andhra Pradesh was killed in an exchange of with Pakistan. He was posted in Jammu and Kashmir. The body of sepoy Thallpureddy Kishan Srinivas was brought to Hyderabad in October 2017 and taken to his native place by road. Reddy’s Gurramma was heart-broken when she was given the news of her only son’s death.
It may be mentioned here that 42-year-old Major Amitsagar of Delhi was killed when the camp was hit by an avalanche at Sonmarg in Jammu and Kashmir on January 25. Some others could be rescued later. Major David Manlun was killed when fighting terrorists during the intervening night of June 6/7 last year in Nagaland. Major David was the son of a retired subedar and belonged to the Zou tribe of Manipur. Major David had taken lead the team in the operations against the combined group of ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam), NSCN(K) and (National Social Council of Nagaland- Khaplang).
Major Kamlesh Pandey of Uttarakhand, had laid down his life, fighting terrorists in Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir in August 2017. Major Satish Dahiya of Haryana was martyred while he fought terrorists in Handwara of Jammu and Kashmir in February. He had also been part of the surgical strikes team. Major L Rambo Singh of Manipur had died while performing operational duties in Eastern Ladakh in what was known to be a treacherous terrain and he was leading a convoy.