Srinagar: Suspected militants on Thursday abducted army soldier from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

Reports said that that the militants abducted the soldier namely Aurengzeb who was travelling in a passenger vehicle.

“Today morning at about 9 am Army men from 44 RR camp at Shadimarg stopped a private vehicle and asked the driver to drop the soldier in Shopian. When the vehicle reached near Kalampora militants came in front of vehicle and abducted the Army man,” a police officer was quoted as saying to local news gathering agency

Aurengzab, a resident of Poonch is presently posted at Shadimarg Army camp was on way to his home town when the incident occurred.

Meanwhile massive searches have been launched to trace out the abducted soldier