Chhattisgarh Bids Final Adieu To Colonel Viplav Tripathi & His Family Killed In Manipur Ambush - In Photos

Colonel Tripathi, the Commanding Officer of Khuga Battalion of the Assam Rifles, his wife Anuja (36), son Abeer (5) along four personnel of the paramilitary force were killed in an ambush by militants in the north-eastern state on Saturday. The last rites of the colonel were held with full military and state honours while his wife and son were cremated and buried, respectively. (PTI Photo)

Earlier in the day, a special plane of the Indian Air Force carrying mortal remains of the martyred colonel, his wife and son, landed at an airstrip in Raigarh at 12:42 pm. From the airstrip, the bodies, kept in coffins, were taken in an open flower-decked truck to Colonel Tripathi's home with a large number of people standing on both sides of the road chanting 'Colonel Viplav amar rahe'. In photo, Army personnel carry the body of martyr Colonel Biplab Tripathi as it reaches Raigarh. (PTI Photo)

Chhattisgarh Higher Education Minister Umesh Patel, Raigarh BJP MP Gomti Sai, MLS and senior officials also paid floral tributes to the martyred colonel, his wife and son. A spontaneous bandh was observed in Raigarh town. (ANI Photo)

A large number of people turned up at Colonel Tripathi's house to pay tributes to him. (ANI Photo)

The mortal remains of Colonel Tripathi and his wife were consigned to flames while their son was buried at the crematorium. The colonel's younger brother, Anay Tripathi, who is also an Army officer and posted as Lieutenant Colonel in Shillong, lit the funeral pyre, PTI reported. (ANI Photo)

Personnel of Assam Rifles paid floral tributes and accorded a Guard of Honour to the departed colonel. (ANI Photo)

Earlier today, a tearful farewell was also accorded to Suman Swargiary, an Assam Rifles personnel killed in a militant ambush in Manipur, at his residence in Assam's Baksa district on Monday, with his inconsolable wife saluting the mortal remains for the final time amidst heart-wrenching cries. (PTI Photo)

The two-and-a-half-year-old son of the couple lay flowers at his father's coffin, oblivious of the grief and loss engulfing the family. (PTI Photo)

Two nurses helped Swargiary's wife to bid her final farewell as she feebly stood and saluted her slain husband, while a family member held the couple’s son in her arms and guided him to lay flowers at his father’s feet and bow his head. (PTI Photo)