March 30, 2003	Sunday	Muharram 26, 1424

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MUZAFFARABAD, March 29: A man died and another injured on Saturday and a woman was killed and 12 others were wounded overnight on Friday in different areas along the Line of Control in Azad Kashmir in heavy Indian shelling, officials said.

The Saturday’s casualties occurred in the southernmost Bhimbher district, where shelling resumed at midday and continued intermittently for about four hours, an official told Dawn from Bhimbher.

He said the Indian shelling was without any provocation and targeted the civilian populations in Samahni sector. As a result, Habib, 40, son of Shah Mohammad, died and Abdur Rehman, 25, was injured in Chahi village.

On Friday night, the official said, Indian shelling injured Maroof, 25, Karamat, 60, Shamaila, 15, and Safina, 28 in the villages of Hill, Gora and Chitti Mitti in Samahni sector.

An official in district Bagh said that Naseeb Jan, 40, wife of Mohammad Aslam was killed and Gulzara Bibi, 25, wounded in Kairni village of Forward Kahuta sector late on Friday night.

Sadiq Hussain, 25, was injured in Digwar village of the same sector, he said.

In Abbaspur sector of the neighbouring Poonch district, 36-year old Fatima Bibi was critically wounded in Taroti village overnight on Friday.

In Nakyal sector of district Kotli, overnight shelling damaged a house in Datot village, and injured its owner, Mohammad Mushtaq, and his two children, Amjad and Tasneem. In the nearby Majhan village, Mohammad Kabir was wounded while the houses of Mohammad Afsar and Mohammad Masood were partially damaged.

In Tatta Pani sector, also in Kotli district, Razzaq, 32, was injured in Palat village.