Peerzada Waseem
Baramulla: A woman was killed and two other civilians injured in an intense shelling from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri are of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said.
They said that a mortal shell hit the house of Akthar Begum, 40, wife of Zahoor Ahmad at Batha Gram village of Uri, killing her on the spot.
Senior Superintendent of Police Baramulla Abdul Qayoom confirmed to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), killing of the woman and said that two others were also injured, who have been evacuated to the hospital. He said five families were evacuated safely to safer place and as a few vehicles and residential houses suffered damage in the shelling.
Defence spokesman in Srinagar, Rajesh Kalia said that today in the morning at 8:20 am, Pakistan initiated an unprovoked ceasefire violation along the LoC in Rampur sector of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district by firing mortars and other weapons.
“Befitting response is being given,” he said—(KNO)
