Jammu April 12: A Junior Commissioned Officer of the Army was killed in an exchange of fire with terrorists in the Keri-Battal sector of Akhnoor, Jammu, on Saturday.
Official sources told that terrorists fired an army party near the forward post in the Keri-Battal sector on Friday late night.
They said that the Army retaliated, resulting in some exchange of fire in which one JCO was critically injured.
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They said that injured JCO who was immediately airlifted to a hospital for treatment where he succumbed to injuries on Saturday.
The JCO has been identified as Subedar Kuldeep Chand of 9 PUNJAB.
