A soldier, who was critically injured last night in a brief gunfight at Imam sahab area of Shopian in south Kashmir, succumbed to injuries Thursday morning.Official sources told GNS that army’s 62 RR and SOG had cordoned off the Barbugh village in Imamsahab area following the specific information about the presence of some militants.As such the joint team of forces had laid the cordon in the village, the militants opened heavy fire upon them and gave slip to the joint team of troops, they said.In the initial gunfire, a soldier Anesh Kumar had received serious bullet injuries, they had said, adding that the injured Kumar was immediately shifted to army’s 92 base hospital here in Srinagar.Kumar today morning succumbed to injuries, the official added. (GNS)