MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 31: Indian troops heavily shelled two sectors in the southern Poonch district of Azad Kashmir on Monday, injuring a boy and damaging several houses, officials said.

Poonch Deputy Commissioner Chaudhry Liaquat Hussain, said the shelling with mortar guns and medium artillery was “unprecedented” in Abbaspur and Hajira sectors and continued for two hours without any pause.

A 12-year boy, Ghulam Murtaza, was injured in Chatra village after splinters of a shell hit him, he said, adding that shelling also badly damaged the house of one Nisar Ahmed and killed his oxen. The Indian troops, he said, also resorted to shelling at midnight in the two sectors, in which four houses were partially damaged. The losses were low as compared to the magnitude of the cross-border shelling, he added.