AMN /
Three civilians including a woman have been killed an 17 other injured in heavy mortar shelling and firing by Pakistani troops in R.S. Pura Sector in Jammu and Kashmir,along the international border today.
According to police sources the Pakistani troops started unprovoked firing and shelling on Indian positions and some civilian areas around 2 AM.
BSF troops retaliated to the Pakistani firing and intermittent exchange of fire continued when the last reports came in.
While two civilians including a woman were killed on the spot, another woman succumbed to injuries at GMC hospital in Jammu.
15 of the seriously injured have been brought to GMC hospital in Jammu where condition of some of them is said to be critical.
As many as one dozen villages and hamlets and an equal number of forward border outposts have been affected by the Pak shelling.
It is clear that Pakistani forces have been deliberately targeting the civilian areas which have triggered panic among the people.
On 15th August, Pak shelling along the LoC in Poonch district had left 6 civilians killed and 20 others injured.