ISLAMABAD: A man was killed in cross-border firing by Indian snipers in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) Poonch district along the Line of Control (LoC) on Tuesday.
A local English daily quoted police as saying that the victim was trimming a tree in the courtyard of his house in Dara Sher Khan village of Battal sector when a bullet hit the 55-year-old victim in the head, and he fell off the tree and died on the spot.
The victim’s family rushed him to a health facility in Tatta Pani — located 7 kilometres ahead of Dara Sher Khan — where the doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
The deceased was identified as Muzaffar Chaudhry alias Mangu.
The heavily militarised LoC has been frequently witnessing ceasefire violations particularly after September 2016, in a serious breach of a truce agreement signed by two armies in November 2003.
Apart from heavy mortar shelling, Indian troops have resorted to the deliberate targeting of civilians with small arms while they are doing daily chores in vulnerable areas along the LoC in AJK.
