Army Captain, 3 jawans killed in Pakistan firing

SRINAGAR: Srinagar: One Army officer and three jawans were killed and one more wounded when Pakistani troops opened fire on Indian forward posts in Bhimber Gali sector of the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri sector on Sunday. 

The slain soldiers have been identified as Captain Kapil Kundu, riflemen Ram Avtar and Shubam Singh, and havaldar Roshan Lal and injured as Lance Naik Iqbal Ahmed.   

The Indian troops have retaliated “strongly and effectively” and fierce artillery exchanges were underway in this section and some adjoining areas of the de facto border as reports last came in. “The situation is very tense,” said Rajouri’s deputy commissioner, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary.

The officials said that two teenagers were also injured in latest violation of ceasefire as some of the mortar shells fired from across the LoC landed in civilians areas of Rajouri and neighbouring Poonch district earlier during the day on Sunday.