The mortal remains of CISF jawan Manoj Biswal, who passed away in a cloudburst-triggered landslide in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on August 14, reached his native town Manikamara in Odisha’s Dhenkanal on Sunday night.
Emotional scenes marked the goodbye as relative, neighbours and residents lined up to capture a last look of the 32-year-old jawan. He was later on cremated at the town crematorium with complete honours.
Biswal was released in Kishtwar’s Chashoti location when an unexpected cloudburst set off flash floods and huge landslides, declaring more than 40 lives and hurting over 100 individuals. The catastrophe ruined camps and obstructed gain access to paths, trapping lots of, consisting of the CISF jawan.
Cloudbursts, marked by extreme rainstorms within minutes, have actually consistently triggered destruction in uneven surfaces like Jammu and Kashmir, with Kishtwar amongst the worst impacted in the last few years.
< p data-start ="1510" data-end ="1669"> The unfortunate death of Biswal has actually plunged his town into grieving, with individuals from throughout the area collecting to bid a tearful goodbye to the braveheart.