Ranchi, Sept. 19: Bina Tigga (27) sat looking at the framed photograph of a young soldier today at her two-roomed home in Kokar, Ranchi, angry tears glinting in her red-rimmed eyes.

Bina's husband Naiman Kujur (30) was among the 18 Indian soldiers, two from Jharkhand, who were killed in last morning's terror attack at Uri in Kashmir. But, as palpable as Bina's grief was her outrage that a stray cross-border terror attack killed her husband and the father of her three-year-old son Abhinav.

Today, hours before the bodies of two state martyrs - Kujur and Khunti's Jawra Munda (34) - were flown into capital Ranchi, chief minister Raghubar Das announced Rs 10 lakh as compensation to each family.

Bina, who confessed she did not understand the intricacies of India's diplomatic stand with Pakistan over Kashmir, only said she was betrayed by the quickly unfolding events since Sunday that changed her life.

"I want no condolence, no compensation. I just want the government to strongly act against terrorists. Soldiers are dying in Kashmir. I lost my husband. Somebody will have to answer," she said.

Anger was also palpable among other army wives who came to meet Bina.

Shalini Kujur, whose husband Amish was transferred to Uri with Kujur, said: "My husband told me Naiman ji (Kujur) had returned to the tent after night duty and was going towards the toilet when terrorists hurled a grenade and fired bullets. The grenade or bullet hit his head and he died on spot. The government should wake up now and stop pussyfooting, else the nation will feel insulted," she said.

Speaking about Kujur, a sepoy in the 6th Bihar Regiment, Bina said he would have loved to go down fighting.

"It will hurt me till death that cowardly terrorists killed my husband when he was off guard. Otherwise, my husband would have given them hell. You don't know how brave he was," she said as Abhinav uncomprehendingly played Kujur's photograph.

Kujur's bereaved parents Sushanti and Mahanad Kujur, who came to Ranchi late last night from their ancestral home in Gumla, mostly kept quiet. The soldier's mother only broke down when Abhinav loudly asked why everyone was talking about his father.

"My son (Kujur) was in the army since 2005. One of his brothers and a brother-in-law are in the army too, another brother is with Jharkhand Police and another is a Home Guard jawan. When a son wears a uniform, you are prepared for anything. Still, I wish my son died with a gun in his hand. He was a hero and deserved a hero's death," she said.

Naiman was posted earlier at Binnaguri, a cantonment town in Jalpaiguri, Bengal. He came home on July 28 prepared for a month-long vacation. But his leave was cut short. On August 14, he joined duty at Binnaguri and two days later reached Jammu and stayed at the army camp for 15 days for specialised training. Then, he left for Uri.

"I last spoke to him on Saturday evening when he had just reached the base camp at Uri. I asked him to take care. On Sunday, after the Uri news came, I constantly tried contacting him. In the evening, an army officer phoned to say my husband was no more," she said.

"I had forebodings about his Kashmir posting," Bina whispered. "But, he told me not to worry. He always said that."