Breaking: 2 Soldiers and 3 Civilians Killed In Kashmir, 5 Persons Injured In Poonch
LoC flare-up: Woman among 3 more civilians injured in Kupwara
Baramulla/ Poonch, Nov 13: Two soldiers including a BSF Sub-Inspector and three civilians, one of them a woman, were killed in mortar shelling and firing along the Line of Control in Uri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Also five civilians were injured in similar incident along the LoC in Poonch district of Jammu.
Official sources told GNS that the two soldiers of BSF and three civilians were killed and one civilian was critically injured in the heavy mortar shelling and firing by Pakistan along the Uri.
The BSF Sub-Inspector has been identified as Rakesh Doval and as per officials he along with other soldier succumbed to injuries they had sustained during a “ceasefire violation” by Pakistan in the Uri sector. “The troops gave a befitting response to the ceasefire violation,” the official sources said.
The civilian killed in the incident have been identified as Tahib Ahmad Mir (36) son of Jaleel Ahmad Mir of Sultan Daki, Irshad Ahmad son of Karamat Hussain of Sarai Bandi Kamlakote and Farooq Begum wife of Bashir Ahmad Dar of Balkote. One civilian was also critically injured and has been identified as Nasder Hussain son of Peer Hussain of Kamalkote. He has been shifted to GMC Baramulla, the officials added.