SRINAGAR: A Territorial Army soldier shot and critically wounded by terrorists in Jablipora area of Bejbhera, in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, succumbed to his injuries on Friday.
GMC (Anantnag) medical superintendent Iqbal Sofi said the soldier was brought dead to the hospital.
Earlier, the medical superintendent of the sub-district hospital in Bhejbera, Dr Tulla Singh, had said that a man had received multiple bullet wounds in the head and abdomen.
Official sources identified the slain soldier as Mohammed Saleem Akhoon, son of Ghulam Hassan Akhoon, a Bhejbhera resident serving in the Territorial Army.