ARA, Jan. 24 -- An Army jawan, Hare Ram Kunwar, who was killed after the vehicle he was travelling in fell into a deep gorge on the Bhaderwah-Chamba interstate road in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, was cremated with full state and military honours at the Mahuli Ganga river ghat on Saturday, officials said.

Earlier in the day, his mortal remains reached his native village Nathmalpur in Barhara block. The jawan's wife, Khushboo Devi, was inconsolable on seeing her husband's body draped in the tricolour.

The soldiers who accompanied the body paid their last respects to their brave colleague, while the martyred soldier's 11-year-old son, Priyanshu Kumar, lit the funeral pyre.

Villagers said Kunwar was not just a soldier but the pride...