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On vacation, army jawan killed in Kashmir by militants

| @indiablooms | Nov 25, 2017, at 07:02 pm

Srinagar, Nov 25 (IBNS) : The Jammu and Kashmir police on Saturday recovered the bullet-riddled body of an army Jawan in  South Kashmir's Shopian district.

According to reports, the body of the  Jawan was discovered in a pool of blood lying at a place in the  Wothmula Nad area of Keegam.

The jawan was identified as Irfan Ahmad Dar, 24, who was working in Territorial Army. He was posted in Gurez Bandipora in North Kashmir.

Locals who found the body, informed the police - who then recovered it.

Speaking to India Blooms, Senior Superintend of Police Shopian Ambarkar Shriram Dinkar said, Irfan  had been on vacation for the last couple of days. He went somewhere on Friday night before militants killed him.

The officer  said a murder case has been registered and an investigation started.

 

(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)

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