Army Jawan Aurangzeb who was abducted by terrorists from Pulwama district. (Twitter/ANI)
An Army soldier, heading home for Eid, was abducted and killed by militants in Pulwama Thursday while another soldier and two militants were killed in a gunbattle in the forests of Bandipora.
Police sources said a soldier of the Rashtriya Rifles, identified as Aurangzeb, was abducted soon after he left his camp to head home to Poonch. Sources said Rashtriya Rifles personnel, posted at Shadimarg in Pulwama, stopped a car that was on its way to Shopian. They told the car driver to drop the soldier at Shopian.
When the car reached Kalampora village, it was intercepted by militants who then abducted the soldier. Police later found his bullet-riddled body in Gossu village of Pulwama. “Abducted jawan's body found. Case registered and investigations initiated by Pulwama police,” a police spokesman said.
Earlier, Pulwama SSP Mohammad Aslam Chowdhary told The Indian Express: “He was on leave and had left for home. That is all we know. Why he boarded a passenger vehicle, what were the circumstances, only the Army can tell.”
In March last year, militants abducted an Army officer, Lt Umar Fayaz…
