2 soldiers hurt in mine blast at LoC

Excelsior Correspondent
MENDHAR, May 21:  Two soldiers received serious injuries  in a mine blast near the Line of Control in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch last evening.
Official sources said that Hvaldar Iqbal Singh and Sepoy Manveer Singh of  5 Sikh Regiment were on patrol duty at a forward location near Nangi Tekri .  One of them  over stepped a land mine causing massive explosion.
Both were seriously injured and were rushed to nearby Unit Hospital at KG. They were later airlifted to Command Hospital, Udhampur.