MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 29: The Line of Control remained relatively calm on Tuesday, except for some brief exchanges of fire in which a teenager was injured in the southern Bagh district of Azad Kashmir, officials said.

They said an incident of sporadic fire in early morning was reported from a area, but on the whole the LoC was calm on Tuesday.

Indian troops fired for a brief period with machineguns and mortars in Bagh district. Pakistan army also responded though the intensity of its fire was considerably low, a police official told Dawn.

Khwaja Ashfaq, 14, son of Mohammad Taj, was injured after being hit by splinters of a mortar shell in Nakarkot village and was moved to neighbouring town of Abbaspur in district Poonch to be admitted to a hospital there, he said.

On Monday evening, Indian forces resorted to heavy shelling in which five persons, including three girls, were killed and five others were injured in Tetrinot village in Hajira sector of district Poonch.

One more death occurred late night, taking the death toll to six. Eight other persons were wounded earlier on Monday in Nakyal sector in the district of Kotli.

On Tuesday, around 2,000 villagers offered the funeral prayers of the six deceased in the village of Tetrinot, which is barely one kilometre off the Line of Control and is highly vulnerable to even small arms fire from across the dividing line. Indian army posts at the hilltops across the LoC overlook the village.