The incident occurred in Jalokhya village, Sardarpur tehsil under Amjhera police station limits of the district on Monday night. The soldier identified as Nirbhay Singh (35) was posted in Jammu and Kashmir.
MDA reported that medics and paramedics provided medical treatment and referred a 28-year-old man to Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem in moderate condition with a gunshot wound in the hand.
Sparking a controversy, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Bhai Virendra has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government of "conspiring" the terror attack in Poonch which led to the death of five Indian soldiers.
The mortal remains of all the five soldiers who lost their lives in the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch were brought to their native villages on Saturday.
Senior Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers and senior Army officers on Saturday reached Bhimber Gali in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch where five soldiers lost their lives in a terror attack on a military vehicle.
Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh on Friday arrived at the terror attack site in the Poonch district, where five Army soldiers were killed yesterday.
Following the terror attack on troops in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch that claimed the lives of five soldiers the previous day, the Indian Army has launched a massive operation to hunt down a group of around six to seven terrorists who are behind this attack.
A team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is to visit Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch where five Indian Army soldiers were killed on Thursday in a terrorist attack on a truck they were travelling in.
An Army vehicle moving between Bhimber Gali and Poonch in the Rajouri sector was fired upon by unidentified terrorists on Thursday, the Army said. The vehicle caught fire, due to the likely use of grenades by terrorists the army statement added.
Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Pande and all ranks of the Indian Army salute the supreme sacrifice of five soldiers who were killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Thursday.