Imphal, February 27, 2010: With irrepressible flow of tears family members and relatives of Major Dr Laishram Jyotin Singh are awaiting arrival of the mortal remains of the Indian Army officer, who was among nine killed in a powerful bomb blast that shook Kabul on February 26 morning.

News agencies had reported that Major Jyotin of the Army Medical Corps (AMC) was among the nine Indians who lost their lives when Taliban suicide bombers blasted a guest house in the Afghanistan capital.

The blast had claimed the lives of 16 people.

"On Thursday night my son gave a phone call from Kabul and we talked about clearing certain loan amount he took for buying a flat at Guwahati and those were his last words spoken to us," a shattered Ibeyaima Devi, mother Jyotin, conveyed.

An MBBS degree holder from Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, here, Jyotin reportedly joined the Indian Army some seven years back after completing graduation in sports medicine from Patiala.

The 38 year old stayed for about 15 days in January this at his Nambol Awang Leikai house, which unfortunately turned out to be the last reunion with the family.

"His Kabul posting was quite new to all of us in our family as he, before leaving us, on January 17, said he would move to Congo very soon under a UN mission, but it was so strange to us that he was in Kabul," the mother said today.

"All my dreams to see him married to a good girl and live a happy family life have been shattered after the Indian army authorities confirmed his death in one of the suicide attacks in Kabul yesterday," she muttered even as two elder sisters of the army doctor cursed the attackers.

"My brave brother went there to treat and save lives of the Afghan people.

Being a doctor his task is not to kill people but to save lives," reacted Meenakumari Devi, Jyotin's eldest sister who is also a government doctor serving in Churachandpur district.

"Why they killed my brother and what is the benefit for them to kill a doctor?" pondered Meenakumari.

"There is no place for these mindless terrorists on earth.

I anathemize to destroy all terrorists from the face of this universe," Jyotin's other elder sister Rajini Devi, reacted.

She also expressed her dissatisfaction over the authorities' alleged failure to protect people from attacks from terrorists and put them in insecurity areas.

"I don't want to see his body flown to Manipur.

I want to see him calling me eche (sister) to me, ema to my mother and baba to my father with his smiling face," Rajini wished.

Jyotin is also survived by a younger brother Laishram Boing, who is an assistant professor in IIT Guwahati and father L Markando, a former deputy director of the State's agriculture department.

Meanwhile, a senior army officer at Imphal said Jyotin's body might be flown to Imphal tomorrow and that a fitting military tribute would be paid at Imphal airport.

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