MUZAFFARABAD, April 10: Four people, including two children, were killed and another man was injured in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday night in unprovoked Indian shelling, police said on Thursday.

Police superintendent Raja Ghulam Sarwar told Dawn here that the Indian shelling with machineguns and medium-range artillery began on Wednesday evening without any provocation in Nakyal sector villages in the southern Kotli district, targeting civilian populations along the Line of Control.

A mortar shell landed on a house in Turkandi village killing, Nasim, 11, and Tania, 13, son and daughter, respectively, of Mohammad Naeem, the SP said, adding that Mohammad Nazir, 50, son of Hassan Mohammad, was wounded in the same village.

In the nearby Mohra Dharoti village, the shelling killed Mohammad Shafiq, 40, son of Mohammad Shafi, and Mohammad Saad, 70, son of Ghulam Deen, he said.

The shelling stopped late at night.