Boy killed in Indian shelling

Published August 24, 2002

MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 23: A minor boy died after becoming victim of the unprovoked Indian firing from across the Line of Control in the southern Kotli district of Azad Kashmir, a police official said on Friday.

Superintendent of Kotli police, Raja Abdul Razzaq Khan, told Dawn by telephone that a seven-year-old boy, Bagh Hussain, son of Kala Khan, was killed sometime on Thursday in Barmot village in Tatta Pani sector.

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