KOTLI, September 29: A woman and a teenage boy were killed after being hit by Indian shelling from across the Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday, residents and officials said.
The casualties occurred in Nakyal sector of Kotli district which has been constantly experiencing physical and material losses in ceasefire violations by Indian troops, they said.
The shelling started at about 3pm and was indiscriminate in the beginning, said Kotli Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Raja Muhammad Akmal.
Later, its intensity reduced and by 6:30pm it stopped, he added.
According to a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Indian troops engaged in “unprovoked firing” along the LoC in Nakyal and Rakhchikri sectors, targeting civilian population.
The military’s media wing confirmed that 60-year-old Salamat Bibi and 13-year-old Zeeshan Ayub had been killed while three other citizens were injured, including two women.
“Fire being responded by Pakistani troops,” said the ISPR in its statement.
Residents said at least two houses in Daryari Palani village were hit by the shelling, as a result of which Salamat Bibi, 60, and Razia Bibi, 30, were injured in one house and Zeeshan Ayub, 13, in the other.
“My mother had just gone to the next door house of Muhammad Wasim when suddenly Indian troops resorted to shelling,” Salamat Bibi’s son Chaudhry Khurshid told Dawn by telephone from the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Nakyal. – Agencies
