An Army soldier, who was critically injured in an encounter in which two militants were killed in south Kashmir district of Shopian last week, succumbed in a hospital on Monday.
Official sources said that two soldiers were injured and as many militants affiliated to Al-Badar were killed in an encounter at Kanigam in Shopain on Saturday. “The injured soldiers were immediately taken to Army’s 92 Base Hospital in Srinagar,” they said.
They said after battling for his life for about three days, one of the two injured soldiers succumbed at the Army base hospital on Monday evening.