Pakistani and Indian forces traded fire along the Line of Control (LoC) on Monday during which a Pakistani woman was critically wounded in Jandrot sector.
The woman sustained serious bullet wounds as a result of “unprovoked firing” by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF), according to a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
ISPR reported that BSF resorted to unprovoked firing at Line of Control (LoC) in Nakial Sector near Kotli on Sunday but no loss was reported.
Intermittent firing continued for some time and Pakistani troops responding in befitting manner silencing the India guns.
No loss of life or property was reported in firing of Indian troops but tension prevailed in the population residing in villages near the LoC.
An Indian news website quoted an unnamed defence official as saying that the exchange of fire had initiated from the Pakistani side. The website added that 120mm mortal shells were also fired by the Pakistani forces.
INDIAN SOLDIER, TWO MILITANTS KILLED IN IOK:
Separately, an Indian soldier and two suspected militants were killed in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) in two separate gun battles along the de facto border that divides the restive territory between India and Pakistan, police said Sunday.
The two militants died when a group of armed men allegedly crossed the border into India and were intercepted by soldiers, triggering a gun battle in Keran, 150 kilometres northwest of India-held Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar.
“According to sources in the army two militants were killed early Sunday morning in the gun battle,” Javaid Gillani, the inspector general of police for the region, told a foreign news agency.
An Indian army soldier was killed Saturday night in a similar but separate gun battle in the adjacent sector of Tangdhar along the heavily-militarised border, Gillani added.
