Umar Rashid
Srinagar, July 07 : An Army soldier who was injured in an encounter between security forces and militants in South Kashmir’s Pulwama village earlier in the day, has succumbed to his injuries.
An official told Kashmir Despatch that an army soldier succumbed to his injuries this afternoon at MI hospital Srinagar.
Earlier a joint team of Army’s 53 RR, SOG and CRPF launched a cordon and search operation at Goosu village in Pulwama following inputs about the presence of some militants in the area.
Pertinently, police claimed to have killed one militant sofar in the ongoing gunfight.