Tributes paid to Major P Purshottam

Tributes were today paid to Major P Purshottam, the defence public relations officer who was killed along with five other soldiers in a suicide attack by militants in 1999.
Wreaths were laid at the Major Purshottam memorial in the Badami Bagh cantonment headquarters of the Army here.
"In a solemn and poignant ceremony held at the Badami Bagh cantonment, all ranks of the Public Relations Office paid rich tributes to Major P Purushottam and five soldiers who were killed in a Fidayeen (suicide) attack on this day in 1999," a defence spokesman said.
Major Purushottam, who was posted as a Public Relations Officer (Defence) along with five of his comrades, fought militants who had launched the attack on his office on November 3, the spokesman said.

"Having been engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with the terrorists, he and his colleagues were killed while trying to save media persons who were present in the PRO's office at the time of the attack," he said.