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LAST GOODBYE: Sunita, (centre) wife of Brigadier Mehta, and other relatives at his cremation service in Delhi.

LAST GOODBYE: Sunita, (centre) wife of Brigadier Mehta, and other relatives at his cremation service in Delhi.

India bids farewell to heroes who fell in Kabul

Brigadier R D Mehta, India's defence attaché in Afghanistan who was killed in a terror attack on the Indian mission in Kabul Monday, was cremated in Delhi on Tuesday with full military honours. A 13-gun salute boomed out as Army chief General Deepak Kapoor led mourners, who included Mehta's family and his parents, in paying tribute to the departed soul. "We bid farewell to a fine soldier," Kapoor told Mehta's family.

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