Ghazipur (Uttar Pradesh): The mortal remains of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel Mahesh Kumar Kushwaha, who was martyred in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag on Wednesday, was brought to his residence in Jaitpur village of Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district on Thursday night.
Thousands of villagers gathered to pay homage to the martyr and were constantly chanting slogans of "Pakistan Murdabad" and "Mahesh Zindabad" while fluttering the tricolour.
Former Union Minister Manoj Sinha visited the deceased CRPF constable's house to meet his family and gave assurance to extend all possible assistance.
The CRPF personnel will reportedly be accorded full state funeral near Ganga River in presence of the officials of district administration and CRPF on Friday morning.
Five CRPF personnel attained martyrdom and three others were injured when their patrol party was attacked by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag on Wednesday.
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Terrorists carried out a stand-off firing attack at K.P Road in Anantnag at about 4:50 pm hours on Wednesday.
Among those dead are ASI Ramesh Kumar (Jhajjar, Haryana), ASI Nirod Sarma (Nalbari, Assam), CT Satendra Kumar (Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh), CT Mahesh Kr Kushwaha (Gazipur, Uttar Pradesh) and CT Sandeep Yadav (Dewas, Madhya Pradesh).
