Two Army jawans killed in firing at LoC
Two Army jawans were killed in the firing which started at around 6 pm and continued for about an hour.
Srinagar: Two Army jawans were killed in Pakistani Army firing along the Line of Control in Sunderbani area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district late Monday night.
The officials said in Jammu on Tuesday that the Pakistani troops resorted to heavy mortar shelling at Battal in Khour sector, bordering Sunderbani. Two Army jawans were killed in the firing which started at around 6 pm and continued for about an hour. The Indian troops, the officials said, retaliated “effectively”.
Though the Army officials believed the Pakistani troops suffered “heavy casualties” in the retaliatory shelling, Islamabad has, so far, not reported any such incident on their side of the defacto border.
The cross-LoC clash comes a day after J&K Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, met Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and defence minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, in New Delhi to discuss with them the security and political situation in the restive state and frequent firing incidents along the borders with Pakistan.
She sought frequent engagement at the highest political levels between and also favored the idea that the top military leadership of both countries should stay in touch with each other to minimise the level of tension across the borders.