An army soldier who was injured in an ongoing gunfight in South Kashmir’s Pulwama District has succumbed to his injures at Srinagar hospital officials told Kashmir Despatch.

An official told Kashmir Despatch that an army soldier succumbed his injuries this afternoon at MI hospital Srinagar.

Earlier a joint team of Army’s 53 RR, SOG and CRPF launched a cordon and search operation at Goosu village in Pulwama following inputs about the presence of some militants in the area.