Soldier killed, 4 others hurt in Pak shelling

Srinagar: An Army jawan was killed and four others, including a lieutenant and a junior commissioned officer, were wounded in Pakistani firing and mortar shelling along LoC in J&K’s Poonch district on Tuesday.

The Army said that the Pakistani troops resorted to heavy firing and mortar shelling on Indian forward posts in Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch’s Mendhar area on Tuesday morning. The Indian troops retaliated by using same calibre weapons and the exchanges continued for some time, it added.  

Officials said that the injured officer and soldiers were airlifted to command hospital in Udhampur for treatment where a soldier, identified as Sepoy Mustapure Shubham Suryakant, succumbed.