4 Pakistanis killed in Indian firing

Risingbd Desk: Three young girls and a teenage boy were killed and three other people, including a minor girl, were injured as Indian troops shelled villages in Azad Kashmir along the Line of Control (LoC) on Saturday, residents and officials said.

The killings occurred in the Keri sector of Charhoi tehsil in the southern Kotli district, where assistant commissioner Raja Arif Mahmod said, shelling had started at about 9:45am.

“The shelling has been heavy, but intermittent. They (Indians) are hitting the areas randomly,” he told Dawn.com.
Injured boy being treated in a hospital.  

“One shell landed on a house in Sabzkot village, killing a teenage boy, his young sister and a cousin,” he said, identifying them as Shehzad, 18, Faiza, 10, Shanza 12 and Areeba, 5.

Shehzad’s siblings Mahmood, 24 and Areeba’s elder sister Iqra, 12, were critically injured and shifted to Combined Military Hospital Mangla.

Officials in the southernmost Bhimber district said the villages in Samahni and Barnala tehsils were also receiving shells from across the Line of Control.

Source: The Dawn

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