Windows Shook, We Hid Under Bed: Pathankot Martyr's Daughter On The Attack
All India | Reported by Barkha Dutt | Updated: January 04, 2016 15:01 IST

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Windows Shook, We Hid Under Bed: Pathankot Martyr's Daughter On The Attack
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Subedar Major Fateh Singh's daughter Madhu says she is proud of her father.

GURDASPUR: At a small, remote village in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab, a group of women are gathered in a house to mourn a man who has become a national hero. They sit around Madhu, the daughter of Subedar Major Fateh Singh, who was martyred as he fought the terrorists who opened attack on the Pathankot Air Force base early on Saturday morning.

"I am very very proud of him," says Madhu, breaking down and then recovering her nerve to detail how her father rushed out of their house at the base to fight the terrorists, and to share what her family witnessed as the audacious attack unfolded.
"He wore his uniform and ran out of the house," she said to NDTV. Subedar Major Fateh Singh won gold and silver medals in the first Commonwealth Shooting Championships held in 1995. He was on duty at the Pathankot base as part of the Defence Security Corps, a unit staffed by veterans no longer in active service.


The 51-year-old was killed in the gunbattle with terrorists.
Inside, his 25-year-old daughter, an English teacher, says, "The firing could be heard, there were bullets at the window. We hid under the bed for two hours...the ground was cold, but we didn't want to risk sitting on the bed. When it got dark, we switched off the lights so they (the terrorists) could not see inside. The firing started again, the windows shook hard.