Indian Army soldiers carry woman & child in heavy snow; Bollywood celebs salute jawans

The soldiers of the Indian Army brave extreme conditions to protect the citizens of the country from the enemies. This is not just restricted to the borders, but the jawans often make headlines for saving lives in other situations too. A group of Armymen carrying a woman and newborn baby for a long distance in heavy snowfall recently became a talking point and won praises on social media. 

READ: J&K: Indian Army Carries Woman, Her Newborn To Their Home Through 6kms Of Snow In Kupwara

Armymen’s gesture wins praises from Bollywood stars 

The incident had taken place in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district a few days ago. A  woman named Farooq Khasana, a resident of Dardpora, had delivered a baby. However, even after being discharged, she was stuck at the hospital due to the heavy snowfall. The soldiers stepped up to the precarious situation and carried the mother and her newborn for six kilometers on their shoulders in knee-deep snow.

Celebrities of the film industry like Neha Dhupia, Atul Kasbekar, Rannvijay Singh, Rahul Dev, Mimi Chakraborty reacted with pride over the gesture. With words like ‘salute’, clapping emojis  and more, the celebrities called them ‘men of honour’ and expressed pride with the statement, ‘this is my country.’

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This was the second time in the past few days that the Armymen had provided help to a woman stuck due to bad weather in J&K. At the start of the year too, a group of soldiers had carried a woman with pregnancy-related complications to the health centre amid the severe snowfall.      

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READ: J&K: Army Jawans Carry Pregnant Woman To Hospital Through Knee-deep Snow