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Unarmed, he saved a bus full of passengers
Updated On: 12 August, 2009 06:50 AM IST | | Vinod Kumar Menon
Jawan Min Bhadur Thapa, a Kargil war veteran, single-handedly took on a group of armed robbers; but was paralysed in the attack
Jawan Min Bhadur Thapa, a Kargil war veteran, single-handedly took on a group of armed robbers; but was paralysed in the attack
For Min Bhadur Thapa, a jawan from the 4/3 Gurkha Regiment, the bad guy has to be defeated anywhere, be it at Kargil or on a bus, and with equal passion.
It was his soldier's spirit that made him single-handedly take on a group of armed robbers on a bus at the Indo-Nepal border and save his fellow passengers. Unfortunately, the encounter left the braveheart paralysed for life.
"I would have been happy to die fighting enemies during the Kargil war but fate had something else in store for me," regretted Thapa, sitting in his wheelchair at the Army rehabilitation centre at Kadki, Pune. "It's so unfortunate that I was shot by my fellow countrymen," the 32-year-old soldier said.
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