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Four reported killed in Indian firing across Line of Control
[DAWN] Three maidens of tender years and a teenage boy were killed and three other people, including a minor girl, were maimed as Indian troops shelled villages in Azad Kashmire along the Line of Control (LoC) on Saturday, residents and officials said.The killings occurred in the Keri sector of Charhoi tehsil in the southern Kotli district, where assistant commissioner Raja Arif Mahmod said, shelling had started at about 9:45am. "The shelling has been heavy, but intermittent. They (Indians) are hitting the areas randomly," he told Dawn.com. "One shell landed on a house in Sabzkot village, killing a teenage boy, his young sister and a cousin," he said, identifying them as Shehzad, 18, Faiza, 10, Shanza 12 and Areeba, 5. Shehzad’s siblings Mahmood, 24 and Areeba’s elder sister Iqra, 12, were critically injured and shifted to Combined Military Hospital Mangla. Officials in the southernmost Bhimber district said the villages in Samahni and Barnala tehsils were also receiving shells from across the Line of Control. "There was intense shelling since morning to 3pm, leaving one woman injured in Baroh village," an official from Samahni cop shoppe told Dawn. The woman, identified as Tazeem Bibi, was shifted to district headquarters hospital, Mirpur, the official added. From 3pm onwards, shelling had started in Barnala tehsil. "It is indiscriminate but so far we have not received any report about casualties," an official from Barnala cop shoppe told Dawn. Posted by: Fred 2016-11-20 |
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