SRINAGAR: A 24-year-old woman and her two minor children were killed and two other civilians injured in Pakistani mortar shelling and use of heavy calibre weapons along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Saturday.
The Army said that it retaliated to “unprovoked ceasefire violation” by the Pakistani troops “strongly and effectively”.
The Pakistani officials reported the death of two of their soldiers and two civilians and injuries to two others including a woman in the firing.
The Army and police officials in Jammu said that a woman resident Rubana Kounsar and her son Faizan (5) and nine-month-old daughter Shabnam were killed
and her (Rubana’s) husband Muhammad Yunis and another civilian Parvaiz Akhter injured in the Pakistani shelling in Salotri area of Poonch.
Earlier, a woman, identified as Naseem Akhtar, was injured in the firing by Pakistani forces in neighbouring Mankote area, they said.
In-charge police post Jhullas, SI Rasheed Kasana that the woman and her two children were killed on the spot and two other persons including Yunis suffered injuries when a mortar shell fired hit their house at Salotri.
