Villager killed, two troops injured by Indian shelling
SIALKOT: A villager was killed and at least eight people, among them two soldiers of the Chenab Rangers, were injured in heavy Indian shelling on villages along the Sialkot Working Boundary on Monday.
According to CR officials, Mohammad Latif, a 65-year-old resident of village Bajrah Garhi, was going to a mosque early in the morning when a mortar shell hit him. He was taken to the Combine Military Hospital, Sialkot, where he succumbed to injuries. Latif’s house was destroyed in shelling by the Indian Border Security forces two days ago.
CR soldiers Mohammad Azam and Mohammad Iqbal, Saleem, Iqbal, Nasir, Sakeena Bibi, Bashir Ahmed and Ghulam Hussain were admitted to the CMH with multiple injuries.
According to the Chenab Rangers, the Indian shelling on about two dozen villages continued for nine hours. The Chenab Rangers retaliated effectively each time, a senior official said.
Published in Dawn, August 26th, 2014