Tribune News Service

Srinagar, March 5

A soldier was killed while performing snow-clearance duty with the Border Roads Organisation in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Sunday.Sapper Amandeep Singh, 26, a resident of Kalloh village in Mansa, Punjab, laid down his life braving the vagaries of nature in the Keran sector, the Army said.Amandeep got critically injured when the bulldozer that he was driving on the Farkin-Keran road was hit by an avalanche on Sunday. He later succumbed to his injuries.Earlier, three Army personnel were killed when an avalanche struck their post in Machil sector on February 2.