Srinagar: An Army jawan and his wife were killed and their three daughters were injured on Saturday as Pakistan violated ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district. According to the reports, the Pak Army targeted Indian posts and villages in Chakka da bagh and Kharri Karmara areas.
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Talking to PTI, a police officer said,"Sepoy Mohmmad Shaukat of the Territorial Army, who was on leave, and his wife Safia Bi were killed when a mortar shell fired by the Pakistan Army exploded near their home in Karmara." The couple's three daughters, Zaida Kouser (6), Robina Kouser (12) and Nazia Bi, and another person were injured."
Pakistan Army began indiscriminate firing and shelling on our positions on the LoC in Gulpur area at around 6:30 AM. The firing is ongoing and our forces are effectively retaliating," the sources said.
The ceasefire violation comes on the day when unprecedented security arrangements has been put in place to maintain law and order on the first death anniversary of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani.
Earlier in the day, two army jawans were injured when terrorists attacked their convoy in Bandipora district.
There have been 23 incidents of ceasefire violations, one BAT(Border Action Team) attack and two infiltration bids by Pakistan in June in which four people, including three jawans, have been killed and 12 injured.
On June 29, two Indian Army jawans were injured when Pakistani troops fired at forward posts and civilian areas along the LoC in Poonch.
Three days earlier, on June 26, the occasion of Eid-ul Fitr, the Pakistani Army fired small arms and automatic weapons and shelled mortars along the LoC in Bhimbher Gali sector of Rajouri.
On June 22, in the third such attack this year, a team of? Pakistani special forces sneaked 600 metres across the LoC into the Poonch sector and killed two Indian jawans and lost one BAT member in retaliatory action.
In the firefight, two Indian soldiers -- 34-year-old Naik Jadhav Sandip of Aurangabad and 24-year-old Sepoy Mane Savan Balku of Kolhapur - were killed.
(With the inputs from PTI)
