Saurabh Farate

Pune: “Mother, please take care of yourself and the family. My daughters need their grandmother to tell them stories about warriors. I am heading to the border, nothing will happen to me...” This was the last message 33-year-old gunner Saurabh Nandakumar Farate, one of the three soldiers martyred in the Pampore militant attack on Saturday, communicated to his mother in the Bekhrai Nagar village.