Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 15: Two members of a family, including a 10-year-old girl, were injured in overnight shelling by the Pakistan army along the Line of Control in Rajouri district.
A mortar shell from across the border hit the house of Nazir Hussain at village Lamibari in Rajdhani area of Manjakote sector, resulting in injuries to two persons, the officials said.
They said the injured – 70-year-old Rafiq Khan and Sonia Shabir – were rescued by a police party headed by Station House Officer of the local police station Manzoor Kohli amid intense shelling and shifted to district hospital Rajouri.
The Pakistani army shelled Forward villages in the sector besides Balakote and Mendhar in nearby Poonch district yesterday.
The Indian Army retaliated and the cross-border shelling between the two sides continued intermittently for several hours, the officials said adding the casualties suffered by Pakistani army in the retaliatory action was not known immediately.
Pakistani rangers also shelled areas along the IB in Hiranagar sector of Kathua district, causing panic among border residents.
The firing and shelling in Chandwa area of Hiranagar began at around 9.30 pm yesterday and continued throughout the night, they said, adding Border Security Force (BSF) personnel retaliated effectively.
The guns fell silent around 4 am.
Meanwhile, Panic gripped a border town in Poonch district after a live mortar shell was found, but it was defused by security forces, officials said.
People found the mortar shell in Mendhar town, triggering panic, they said. The information was given to Army which defused it safely, thereby averting a major tragedy, the officials added.
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