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Two dead, three injured in Indian firing along LoC
.jpg) [DAWN] Two people died and another three were critically maimed when Indian forces opened fire across the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK), officials and residents said on Sunday.The casualties took place in Fatehpur village of Nezapir sector in Haveli district, which came under "unprovoked" Indian shelling from 10pm to 11pm, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Chaudhry Kashif Hussain said. One shell landed in the house of Sheikh Mushtaq, 65, a retired schoolteacher, leaving his children Naveed, 32, and daughter Asma, 20, dead on the spot, Hussain said. Naveed ran a photocopy shop while Asma was a BSc student. Mushtaq, his wife Naseema Begum, 55, and another son Ansar, 25, were critically injured and hospitalised in Forward Kahuta, district headquarters of Haveli. Indian troops had also shelled Nezapir sector earlier in the day - from 3pm to 5pm - but no casualties were reported during that spell. Though there was no immediate word from the Inter-Services Public Relations -- the army’s media wing -- some residents claimed Pak troops had also responded to Indian shelling. Condemning the "unprovoked and indiscriminate" shelling, AJK’s Minister for Information Mushtaq Minhas said it was the "height of barbarism" on the part of Indian troops to target innocent civilian populations along the LoC. "Targeting the unarmed non-combatants with small and heavy arms is a criminal breach of international laws and conventions which warrants for immediate intervention of the international community in general and the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... in particular," he said in a statement. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-28 |
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