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| Woman killed, 9 injured in 'ruthless' firing by Indian troops across LoC |
| 2019-01-01 |
| [DAWN] A woman was killed and nine other people, including two police constables, were maimed in Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) on Monday as Indian troops resorted to "ruthless" mortar shelling from across the restive Line of Control (LoC), officials said. The target on the last day of 2018 was Athmuqam, the otherwise rarely hit district headquarters of the picturesque Neelum Valley, located some 80 kilometres northeast of state capital Muzaffarabad. "First they [Indians] fired some shells on Pakistain Army posts, but suddenly they started pounding civilian installations with mortar shells," said Akhtar Ayub, an Athmuqam based disaster risk management officer. Video footages shared by some Athmuqam residents in WhatsApp groups showed people running to safety amid the thunder of shelling and clouds of smoke. Ayub said Indian troops targeted the entire one-kilometre radius of Athmuqam, overlooked by Indian gun positions atop lofty mountains across the unmarked dividing line. "The shelling was so indiscriminate that we thought they [Indians] will devastate everything existing on the ground," said Abbas Mir, a schoolteacher, whose car’s windowpane was smashed by the splinters of a shell. Samiya Amir, an AJK University Neelum campus student, said they were on the third floor of a building when the shelling began. "All of us rushed to the ground floor where we remained confined over the next three hours in a state of fear and anxiety," she added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Trump should share border wall technology with India. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-01-01 09:56 |
| #1 Almost like there was a reason for such indiscriminate firing, like Pak intrusions.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-01-01 04:46 |