ISLAMABAD: Eight people, including women and children, were injured as Indian troops resorted to unprovoked heavy shelling across the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said. “Indian troops started shelling at around 6:30 am without any provocation,” Senior Superintendent Police Chaudhry Zulqarnain Sarfraz said, adding that the soldiers targeted civilians in Kotli district’s Nakyal sector. “It was the heaviest incident of shelling,” he added. Sarfraz said that the shelling had left eight persons wounded, some of whom are in critical condition. The injured were shifted to different hospitals for treatment, Kolti District Headquarters Hospital Superintendent Dr Tariq Mehmood said. The heavily militarised LoC has been witnessing sporadic skirmishes and artillery duels for quite some time. On Saturday, two young children were killed while three others were wounded in an incident of cross-LoC firing by Indian troops.
Published in Daily Times, October 19th 2017.
