Srinagar: Provoking India yet again, Pakistan violated the ceasefire on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday by firing on 5 posts of Border Security Force (BSF) in RS Pura sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
Three civilians have been killed and fifteen others have been injured in mortar shell firing in residential areas.
The firing started at 10pm on Thursday and stopped around 3.30am. The Pakistani troops fired mortar bombs and used automatic weapons in the firing. The shelling was so heavy that the shells landed deep inside villages much away from IB.
"Pakistan Rangers resorted to unprovoked firing. Initially small arms were used but later on mortars bombs were shelled on BSF posts and civilian areas in R S Pura and Arnia sectors since midnight", a BSF spokesman said.
The BSF has issued an official statement saying they are retaliating in a befitting manner. BSF troops guarding the border retaliated resulting in heavy exchanges which are going on when the reports last came in from the area
"Undeterred and resolute BSF troops deployed in these forward post areas gave a befitting reply and fired on the forward areas of Pakistan along the Line of Control, reportedly, causing damage to them. No damage and casualty to BSF troops on own side has been reported till the last reports came in", he added.
Earlier on August 25, a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of Army was killed in cross-LoC firing by Pakistani troops in Kupwara district of Kashmir. The JCO was hit by a Pakistani sniper near the LoC in Nowgam sector and later succumbed to injuries.
There have been over 250 ceasefire violations so far in 2015. With Pakistan refusing to end its constant border provocations, Home Minister Rajnath Singh had also held a key security meeting last week to review the security around the border areas.
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