Soldier killed, 4 injured in Pak shelling in J&K's Rajouri district
Defence spokesman Lt Col Devender Anand said Indian Army retaliated effectively and the firing stopped at 0715 hours.
Jammu: A soldier was killed; four others were injured in Pakistani shelling along Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Monday.
“A soldier was martyred and three others were injured in ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Keri Battal area of Akhnoor this morning,” said an Army source.
Earlier, Defence spokesman Lt Col Devender Anand had said that at around 5.30 am, Pakistan initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by shelling with mortars and firing of small arms along LoC in Sunderbani Sector.
He said Indian Army retaliated effectively and the firing stopped at 0715 hours.
"In the incident, rifleman Karamjeet Singh was critically injured and later succumbed to injuries," the spokesman said, adding four other soldiers were injured and condition of two of them was critical. The 24-year-old deceased rifleman belonged to Janer village, under Dharam Kot Tehsil in Moga district of Punjab and he is survived by his parents, he said.
On Sunday too, the sector was targeted by the Pakistan Army in unprovoked ceasefire violation. The border skirmishes witnessed a spurt after India's air strike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in Balakot on February 26 in response to the February 14 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed.