October 28, 2001	Sunday	Shaba'an 10, 1422

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SIALKOT, Oct 27: The continued firing by Indians on Saturday created havoc and ruin in villages near the Sialkot working boundary, killing two goats and tearing down six more houses.

Official sources told Dawn that harvesting of paddy crops had also been thrown into disarray because of shelling in villages in Chhumb, Joriyaan, Bajwat, Chaprar, Sucheetgarh, Harpal, Bajragarhi, Charwa, Kingra, Jammu, Zafarwal, Oovi and Shakargarh sectors.

Over 100 houses had been vandalized and 30 animals killed by the stepped-up Indian shelling during the last week, sources said.

Several shells fired by Indian troops were defused on Saturday by the bomb disposal squad in Bela areas, they said.

The Sialkot-based permanent UN observers visited the affected villages and voiced their concern over the growing Indian atrocities.

Meanwhile, the district administration has clamped night curfew in villages along the working boundary. This order will remain effective for two months. The movement near the Zero Line has also been prohibited from dawn to dusk.