The detained soldier, identified as Gordon Black by an official, remains in pre-trial detention. While the US Army hasn't confirmed the soldier's name, they've assured that the family has been informed.
Congress leader and former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday said that the Poonch militant attack, in which an IAF corporal was killed and four soldiers were injured, was an "election stunt" to benefit the BJP.
On the fourth anniversary of the clashes that began between Indian and Chinese troops at Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh, Congress' Jairam Ramesh took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving a clean chit to China and insulting the fallen soldiers.
The mortal remains of an Indian Air Force soldier, Corporal Vikky Pahade who succumbed to injuries sustained in a terror attack on Saturday evening, arrived in his hometown in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara for last rites on Monday.
RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav on Monday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and called him the reason behind the martyrdom of the soldiers in the terrorist attack on the Indian Air Force vehicle in Jammu & Kashmir's Poonch on May 4.
An Indian Air Force (IAF) soldier was killed and four others were injured in the terror attack in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday evening .
An Indian Air Force soldier who was injured in a terrorist attack in the Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir has passed away while one more is said to be critical, security force officials said.
According to officials, the exchange of gunfire between security forces and Naxalites occurred two to three times since morning, but all soldiers remain safe and secure.