SIALKOT, May 28: Large scale troop movement was reported on Tuesday along the 220-kilometre Sialkot working boundary.

At least 65 houses were damaged by Indian shelling and 47 cattle killed in the border villages of Joiyaan, Rangpur Jattan, Charwa, Merajkay, Umraanwali, Thathi Kalan, Chaprar and Kahliyaan along the Sialkot working boundary.

The villages have already been evacuated.

The Indian forces fired 226 shells in Chhamb-Joriyaan, Bajwat, Bajragarhi, Charwa, Chaprar, Harpal, Sucheetargh, Jammu, Akhnoor, Saamba, Zafarwal and Shakargarh-Narowal sectors.

The Chenab Rangers claimed to have thwarted two more Indian attempts to fence the working boundary near Jammu and in Shakargarh-Narowal sector. Four Indian soldiers were said to have been killed and six pillars, 16 bunkers and two ammunition carrying vehicles destroyed.

RELIEF: The district governments of Sialkot and Narowal have asked the union council Nazims and Naib Nazims to ‘look after’ the villagers forced to leave their homes in border areas.

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