Overnight firing in Samba: Pakistan targets nine BSF posts

Quoting Punjab Rangers officials, it said, the BSF resorted to unprovoked, intensified firing on villages along the Sialkot Working Boundary in the Shakargarh sector.

As per initial reports, three civilians working on the construction of the culvert received bullet injuries, the BSF spokesman said.

Two villagers identified as Surinder and Rohit were injured and hospitalised in the mortar shelling, a police officer said.

The firing began at around 8 PM on Friday, 23 October and continued until 2 AM on Saturday, 24 October.

On Friday, one civilian was killed and two others injured in unprovoked Pakistan shelling in Mangu Chak area of Samba district.

The official said that two civilians were injured and three cows were killed in the fresh firing by Pakistan Rangers.

After every firing incident along the IB or the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir both India and Pakistan accuse each other of violating the ceasefire which is in place since 2003.

Today’s ceasefire violation from the Pakistani side came after a lull of more than a month, BSF said. The ceasefire violations, which became a routine, had stopped after the director general-level talks between BSF and Pakistan Rangers on 12 September.