Four soldiers including an Army Major died in a road accident in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Tuesday. The soldiers were returning to battalion headquarters when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell in deep gorge.
Five soldiers have been injured in the accident. Sources said that a vehicle belonging to 41 Rashtriya Rifles Battalion was on way to Kalaroos in frontier district Kupwara where a prolonged encounter is going on with militants for past two weeks.
Five militants and four soldiers have died in the encounter so far. The driver lost control over the vehicle carrying soldiers of diverse ranks. It skidded off the road and fell in a deep gorge at Check Morh. The wounded soldiers were immediately shifted to Kalaroos hospital where four of them, including a Major identified as Inderjeet Singh, succumbed to injuries, sources said.