3 people injured in shelling

Published November 23, 2001

MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 22: Three more people were injured while several houses were damaged in unrelenting Indian shelling from across the Line of Control in Azad Kashmir on Thursday.

Police told newsmen that Khwaja Ashraf, 35, Abdul Khaliq, 45 and Abdul Latif, 28, received critical wounds in Kaserkot village in Leepa valley, some 100 kilometres southeast of here at about 11am.

The intense shelling left at least seven houses in the same village partially or completely damaged, police added.

Indian troops also targeted several villages of Athmuqam sector in Neelum valley, but no casualty was reported from there.

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