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Lance Naike Goswami, who killed 10 terrorists in 11 days, posthumously awarded Ashok Chakra

| | Jan 26, 2016, at 06:02 pm
New Delhi, Jan 26 (IBNS) Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami, who killed 10 terrorists in 11 days before being martyred in Jammu and Kashmir recently, was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra, the country's highest peacetime gallantry award, by President Pranab Mukherjee at the 67th Republic Day programme in the national capital on Tuesday.

The award was received by Bhavna Goswami, widow of the breaveheart. 

 Lance Naik Goswami was engaged in a fierce gunfight with terrorists hiding in the Hafruda forests in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir in September, last year. Despite critically wounded, he  eliminated two terrorists and also saved the lives of his comrades.

The citation read out on the occasion said that Lance Naik Goswami succumbed to his injuries in the highest traditions of the Indian Army.

He hailed from  Uttarakhand, and is survived by his wife and a seven-year-old daughter.

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