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Pak opens new fronts on LoC; targets more forward villages
 [Daily Excelsior] Pakistain army today opened new fronts in Rajouri and Poonch sectors even as entire population from nine villages of Nowshera sector, located close to the Line of Control (LoC) shifted to safer areas including the migrant camps and houses of their relatives. While there was no shelling in Nowshera sector today, panic still prevailed among the villagers, who were putting up in forward areas.Official sources told the Excelsior that almost entire population from nine villages, located close to the LoC and which bore brunt of Pak shelling yesterday as well as prior to that, were evacuated in buses and bunkers overnight and this morning while some of them reached the safer areas including the migrant camps on their own. The villages, deserted by the people, included Khamba, Sarya, Bhawani, Kalsian, Anwas Bhandar, Manpur, Dhanaka, Khori and Ganiah, located close to the LoC in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district, where three civilians have been killed and half a dozen others injured during past four days. Official figures revealed that 1200 people have been lodged in three migrant camps at Government Higher Secondary School Boys, Nowshera, Government Middle School, Bawali and Government High School Nonial while around 400 people have left for the houses of their relatives in safer areas from the villages, hit by very heavy mortar shelling by Pakistain army yesterday. Indian side had given effective retaliation to Pakistain. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... details of casualties and damages suffered by Pakistain couldn’t be ascertained immediately. All Government schools falling within five kilometers radius of LoC have been closed in Nowshera and Manjakote sectors in view of Pakistain shelling. Some of the Government schools have been hit by 120mm and 82mm mortars fired by the Pakistain army in Nowshera and Manjakote sectors. Sources said the authorities had to press a fleet of buses and bunkers to evacuate the civilians, who were trapped in the forward villages in view of heavy Pakistain shelling. The buses going on evacuation operation were also targeted at Nonial yesterday. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the evacuation operation was completed by this afternoon as there was no shelling since 7.45 pm yesterday. Apart from evacuation, some of the people reached the migrant camps on their own while others left for the houses of their relatives in safer areas. Posted by: Fred 2017-05-15 |
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