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Militants on Monday ambushed an army patrol with a powerful improvised explosive device at Ratnag in Jammu and Kashmir, killing a soldier and wounding six others, defence sources said.
Militants had planted the IED on a link road and detonated it when an army column was patrolling Ratnag village near Lolab in Kupwara district in north Kashmir in the wee hours, they said adding the injured have been hospitalised.
Elsewhere, three persons including a militant were killed in separate incidents in the valley since Sunday night.
The militant identified as Farooq Ahmad Gojri was killed in an encounter with the army at Sogam in Kupwara early on Monday, an official spokesman said.
Meanwhile, Kupwara district observed a complete shutdown on Monday in protest against the alleged killing of two civilians by security forces after two powerful explosions by militants on Sunday evening, sources said.
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