A total of 114 Army personnel have been awarded the Sena Medal for gallantry on Independence Day for their acts of valour in different operations across the country.Lieutenant Colonel Sanjiv Kumar Kakkar of the Army Medical Corps was heading the Indian medical mission in Kabul when the terrorists carried out a suicideattack on the hotelwhere the Indian team was staying."After the heavy suicide attack, Kakkar, though unarmed, displayed exceptional bravery, rushed into a hail of bullets to take on the terrorist and herded his colleagues to safety. The terrorist lobbed a grenade setting the complex on fire and blocked the exit," an Army release said."The officer ran through the advancing flames, took his colleagues with him and jumped through the window, himself sustaining severe burn injuries and a splinter injury in the right leg," it said.In the same attack, Major Sumit Arora, a medical specialist, came under fire as a terrorist lobbed a grenade at his room setting it on fire."Arora, totally unarmed, decided to brave the fire and confront the enemy bare handedly. He came out of the room jumping through the window running through the fire towards the terrorists outside," the Army said. [More]Tags:heavy rainsindependence day