June 2, 2002	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 20,1423

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MUZAFFARABAD, June 1: A young boy and two girls were killed and at least nine other people, including six women, were injured as Indian troops shelled several villages of Azad Kashmir on Friday night and Saturday, police said.

According to details, an eight-year-old boy, Shan, son of Iqbal Butt, was killed in Behra Kotehra village in Khuiratta sector of district Kotli late on Friday. Two women were injured in the same sector, and another was wounded in Bhedi sector in district Bagh in overnight shelling, police said.

The unprovoked Indian shelling resumed at 10am on Saturday in Charoi and Nakyal sectors of district Kotli, police said, adding Rubina Kausar, 29, daughter of Abdullah, was killed in Balakot village in Nakyal sector, and two other people, Daulat Khan and Riyasat, were injured in the Charoi sector.

In Samahni sector of the southernmost Bhimbher district, Nargis Bibi, 18, daughter of Mohammad Amin was killed in Chahi village on Saturday evening.

Four others, including two sisters, were injured in the same village.

SIALKOT: One Maqbool Ahmad, 42 was killed, and 12, including two women Gulzar Bibi, Iqbal Bibi, were seriously injured by Indian mortar shelling on Pakistani border villages in the Sialkot working boundary’s Bajwat sector.

According to sources, some villagers were shifting to safer places for fear of war, when some Indian mortar shells hit them, killing one Maqbool Ahmed on the spot and seriously injuring the others. The injured were admitted to Sialkot CMH.

Official sources confirmed that the Indian security forces, today, continued intensified mortar shelling on the border villages in Sialkot working boundary’s Chhumb, Joriyaan (Gujrat), Bajwat, Bajragarhi, Charwa, Harpal, Sucheetgarh, Chaprar, Jammu, Akhnoor, Saamba, Zafarwal and Shakargarh-Narowal sectors.

Sixty-five homes were badly damaged. And 150 acres of wheat crop in Chhumb Joriyaan (Gujrat) sector were destroyed.