October 9, 2003	Thursday	Sha’aban 12, 1424

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JAMMU, Oct 8: Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy mortar fire along Line of Control (LoC), Indian police said on Wednesday.

India claimed that shelling by Pakistani troops began on Tuesday and continued early Wednesday. A police source said the area targeted was the border district of Poonch, 240km west of Jammu.

“Some shells from the Pakistani side landed close to a makeshift shelter near Poonch hospital where relatives of the sick are housed,” the source said.

The shells damaged a wall of the hospital, which houses about 600 patients, but there were no casualties, he said. India returned the fire.—AFP