Kashmir: 22-year-old soldier killed as protesters throw stones at army convoy
Srinagar, Oct 26 (IBNS): A soldier was killed as protesters threw stones at an army convoy passing through the Anantnag bypass tri-junction in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, media reports said on Friday.
The soldier, identified as Rajendra Singh (22), died at an hospital on Friday.
He was part of a quick reaction team responsible for providing security cover to a Border Roads Organisation team.
"Although Rajendra was given first aid and taken to the 92 Base Hospital immediately after the incident occurred around 6 pm yesterday, he succumbed to his injury," NDTV quoted an official as saying.
Singh was a resident of Badena in Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh.
He had joined the Indian Army in 2016.
An only child, he is survived by his parents.
Singh was a part of three army personnel who were killed in separate incidents over the last two days.
One among the other two has been identified as Lance Naik Brajesh Kumar (32), who sustained fatal splinter injuries during an encounter in Sopore's Malgunipura earlier on Friday.
Another Sepoy Ngamsiamliana (23) died in a terrorist attack on an army camp at Luragam village in Tral on Thursday.
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