For the past five days, Pakistan has focused on the Poonch villages.
Srinagar:
Three Indian Army soldiers were killed and five others injured in separate incidents during the heavy shelling of Pakistan along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. The army said an adequate response is being given to Pakistan, which is using mortars to attack Indian positions. It is unclear whether the Pakistani military has suffered any casualties.
The unprovoked violation of the ceasefire began Wednesday night with small arms fire and heavy mortar shelling in the Mankote and Krishna Ghati sectors, a defense spokesman said.
The two soldiers were killed and four others were injured when the Pakistani army began firing mortars in the Nowgam sector of the Kupwara district in northern Kashmir this morning. The injured are being evacuated, the spokesman said.
Earlier, a soldier was killed in the Poonch sector and another was injured after the Pakistani army violated the ceasefire and began firing forcefully at Indian positions.
For the past five days, Pakistan has been targeting villages in Poonch where some animals were injured on Tuesday.
On September 5, a member of the military was killed and two others, including an officer, were injured when Pakistani troops used heavy fire and mortar shells along the Line of Control in the Sunderbani sector of the Rajouri district, the officials said. authorities.
On September 2, a JCO (Commissioned Petty Officer) was killed in another violation of the ceasefire by the Pakistani Army in the Keri sector of Rajouri.
Over the past eight months, more than 3,000 violations of the ceasefire have been reported by Pakistan, which is the highest in 17 years. In September alone, the Pakistani army violated the ceasefire 47 times.
In 2003, India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire along the Line of Control.
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