Srinagar, Dec 16 || A soldier was killed in an explosion in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, officials said on Tuesday.
Officials said that the soldier died on Monday in an explosion in Putaha Khan Gali of the Trehgam area of the district of the Line of Control (LoC).
The soldier has been identified as Havaldar Zubair Ahmad of J&K Light Infantry (JAKLI).
“The injured soldier was rushed to a military hospital in the Drugmulla area of Baramulla district, but doctors said he was dead on arrival,” officials said.
More details were awaited.The officials said that the explosion occurred during road construction in the area, and the soldier was accidentally critically injured in this blast.
The soldiers sometimes step on preplanted landmines during patrolling near the LoC. In most such accidents, due to rain, snow and other weather conditions, these mines have been swept away from the area where they were planted. Such landmines are technically called ‘drift mines’.