Rajouri encounter: 3 more soldiers succumb to injuries; internet snapped

Five Army personnel were killed and a major injured on Friday in an explosion triggered by terrorists in the thickly forested Kandi area in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district where an operation is underway to flush out terrorists, officials said.

In the morning, two Army men belonging to the Special Forces were killed and four, including the major, were injured. Later in the day, three died in a hospital in Udhampur.

"In the ongoing operation in Rajouri sector, three soldiers who were critically injured in the morning have unfortunately succumbed to their injuries.

"The operations are still in progress," an Army spokesperson in Udhampur said.

Mobile internet facilities in the Rajouri area have been suspended. According to a statement from the Army's Northern Command in the morning, its personnel have been conducting "relentless intelligence-based operations to flush out a group of terrorists involved in an ambush on an Army truck in the Tota Gali area of Bhata Dhurian in Jammu region last month".