Villager injured in Indian firing

Published October 13, 2001

SIALKOT, Oct 12: A villager was seriously injured in firing by Indian troops on bordering Dhumalo village of the Sialkot working boundary’s Charwa sector.

Official sources said on Friday that Nazar Khan, 42, was asleep in the courtyard of his house when some stray bullets hit him, injuring him critically. He was admitted to the Sialkot Combined Military Hospital in serious condition.

In addition, they said, three donkeys were killed, four houses and standing paddy crops destroyed in the Indian firing in villages along the working boundary.

Meanwhile, traffic on the Sialkot-Kingra-Sucheetgarh Road remained suspended due to unprovoked Indian firing.

The gunbattle between the Chenab Rangers and Indian troops was continuing till the filing of this report late in the evening.

HONOURED: Two local Intelligence Bureau officials were honoured with appreciation certificates in recognition of their performance to arrest two terrorists of the recent Sialkot bomb blasts in which six labourers were killed and 45 others injured.

District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid gave away certificates to two recipients at a ceremony held here on Friday.

It may be mentioned that two IB officials with the collaboration of police had arrested RAW agents Dilawar Ali and Shehbaz.

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