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Pakistani troops fire at Indian border: 6 injured
Six people were injured when Pakistani troops shelled over 15 BOPs and 29 hamlets with mortar bombs and fired heavily from automatic weapons overnight in RS Pura and Arnia sectors along the International Border in Jammu district.
Jammu: Six people were injured when Pakistani troops shelled over 15 BOPs and 29 hamlets with mortar bombs and fired heavily from automatic weapons overnight in RS Pura and Arnia sectors along the International Border in Jammu district.
BSF troops guarding the border line retaliated to the Pakistani firing.
“There was heavy firing and mortar shelling on BOPs and villages along the IB in RS Pura and Arnia sectors of Jammu district overnight and continued till Thursday morning,” a police officer said.
Pakistani troops pounded over 20 civilian hamlets along the IB in Arnia and RS Pura overnight, he said.
Over 15 BOPs were also targeted. In the shelling, six civilians were injuredin Khopra Basti belt in RS Pura on Thursday morning, he said, adding that the injured had been evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
Pakistani posts started firing heavy mortars towards the Indian side at 8.35 pm, a BSF officer said.
“Heavy mortar shells were fired towards Arnia on Wednesday night,” Jammu Deputy Commissioner Simrandeep Singh said.
On Wednesday, an officer of the Border Security Force was injured when a shell fired by Pakistani Rangers exploded near him in RS Pura sector.
As many as 16 people, mostly women, have been injured in the cross border firing in the RS Pura sector in the past two days.
BSF Assistant Sub-Inspector AK Upadhayay was injured when a shell exploded near him in RS Pura sector. He received splinter injures in his hand.
Eight civilians were injured in shelling in RS Pura and Arnia on October 25.
Singh said the government had issued an advisory and all educational institutes near the border had been closed in the wake of the firing from across the border.
People have been migrating to safer locations.
“In the wake of the heavy firing, border residents are migrating to safer locations. Whenever there is lull, they leave their houses to shift to either safe camps or to their relatives’ houses at safer locations,” Singh said.
A six-year-old boy and a BSF jawan were killed in the cross-border shelling in RS Pura sector on October 24.
Over 55 ceasefire violations have taken place since the surgical strikes carried out by the Army on terror launch pads in PoK, in which four people, including three security personnel, have died and over 25 injured.
