Indian shelling kills two civilians at LoC

ISLAMABAD: Heavy Indian shelling from across the Line of Control on Thursday evening killed at least two civilians and injured two others in Nakial sector of Azad Kashmir.

According to the military’s media wing, Laiba, 13, and Munshi, 55, were killed as both sides continued to trade fire late into the night.

Meanwhile, Nazakat Hussain, a civil administration official in Nakial, said that India had started shelling at around five in the evening.

“It is intense,” Hussain described the firing, adding that apart from Laiba and Munshi, a 19-year-old boy had also been killed when Indian forces bombarded their homes.

Officials said that at least two persons had been injured and that casualties could rise.

Thursday’s attacks come a day after the foreign office had summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner in Islamabad to protest the killing of a Pakistani soldier by Indian cross-border firing earlier this week. India had also been urged to immediately halt ceasefire violations and observe the 2003 Ceasefire Arrangement along the LoC and the Working Boundary.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, September 18^th, 2015.