6 Civilians Injured as Pakistan Violates Ceasefire In Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch District

Pakistan, on Friday, violated the ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch District. According to the officials, 6 civilians have been injured including children in the firing in Sawjian. The injured have been hospitalised. “Government should look into it, we are very scared. Shelling should stop,” the locals from the area said. On Friday, the Pakistani troops violated multiple ceasefires along the LoC from Gurez sector to Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir, leaving three security forces personnel among six persons killed. According to the officials, the Pakistani troops fired mortars and other weaponsIn Nambla sector in Uri, two Army soldiers were killed in the Pakistani firing, the officials said. A BSF sub-inspector was also killed in Haji Peer sector while a jawan was injured, they said. Two civilians were killed in Kamalkote sector in Uri area of Baramulla district while a woman was killed in Balkote area in Haji Peer sector of Uri, they added.The officials said several persons were injured in the Pakistani aggression. They said apart from various places in Uri, the ceasefire violations were reported from Izmarg in Gurez sector of Bandipora district and Keran sector of Kupwara district.

A defence spokesman said the Army foiled an infiltration bid, which was aided by the ceasefire violation, along the LoC in the Keran sector.

“Suspicious movement was observed by our troops at the forward posts along the LoC in Keran sector (in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district) today. The suspected infiltration bid was foiled by alert troops,” Srinagar-based defence spokesman Col Rajesh Kalia said.