Karnal, Sept. 11 -- Two days after 28-year-old lance naik Narender Sindhu, a resident of Rohera village in Kaithal, was killed during a gunfight with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam, his body was cremated with full military honours on Wednesday.

His body arrived early in the morning, wrapped in a tricolour, when people from the entire village as well as the surrounding areas paid tribute to him in large numbers.

Apart from locals, several school students also showered flower petals on the army vehicle carrying his body as it passed from various areas of the village towards the cremation ground.

His cousin Rohtash lit the funeral pyre at the ground, where SDM Ajay Singh attended the funeral and paid tributes on behalf of the di...