Farmer killed by Indian firing

Published October 17, 2003

SIALKOT, Oct 16: A farmer was killed while a woman suffered hurts in Indian firing on the Sialkot working boundary’s Shakargarh-Narowal sector early on Thursday morning.

Official sources told this correspondent that some farmers were working in fields at Saambli village when the Indian forces targeted them, killing Allah Noor, aged 50. A woman, Allah Rakhi, 45, was injured during the firing after which she was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital in critical condition.

Meanwhile, the Indian forces continued firing on the villages in Sialkot and Narowal. Three cattle were killed and several mud houses gutted in the firing.

The Pakistani forces responded effectively, killing two soldiers and causing heavy defensive loss to the opponents.

An exchange of fire between the two forces was going on till the filing of this report in the evening.

PROTEST: Hundreds of students of the Government Boys Inter College, Mitranwali, (Daska), demonstrated on Thursday to protest shortage of the lecturers at the institute.

The students chanted slogans against the education department officials for being deaf to their pleas of recruiting the lecturers.

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