Rohtak, May 8 -- A 32-year-old Lance Naik Dinesh Kumar from Haryana's Palwal district was killed in the intense cross-border artillery and mortar shelling by the Pakistan army after the Indian Armed forces successfully executed 'Operation Sindoor' in the early hours of Wednesday.

Dinesh hailed from Mohammadpur village in the Palwal district.

"He was recruited in 2014 and was recently promoted to Lance Naik. He was posted at Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir," his father Daya Ram Sharma said. He added that the family got the information about the death of his son in the morning, and his last rites will be performed on Thursday.

"We were informed that Dinesh, along with four other soldiers, was patrolling along the Line of Control (LO...