Srinagar: As guns continue to road along the borders with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir, one more person was killed and three others wounded on Monday, raising the death toll in days of active hostilities between the facing troops to 20.
Most of the deaths have taken place in mortar gun fire by the Pakistani Rangers and the Army along the International Border and the Line of Control in J&K’s Kathua, Samba, Jammu, Rajouri and Poonch districts.
Among the slain were eight civilians, three Army jawans and two of their counterparts from the BSF.
More than three dozen people, most of the civilians, have been injured, dozens of residential houses damaged and over 200 cattle perished in the Pakistani firing and shelling since Wednesday night, the officials said. Jammu's additional Deputy Commissioner, Arun Manhas, said that the damage to residential houses and other private properties in the border-belt in the days of mortar shelling from across the borders is “huge”.
