SIALKOT, Jan 29: Three persons, including a woman, were injured in firing by Indian security forces on border village Sahanti in the Bajwat sector of the Sialkot working boundary on Tuesday.

Official sources said Salma Bibi, 34, was sitting in the courtyard of her house when some bullets fired by Indian troops hit her, injuring her seriously.

Shahid Husain, 11, was playing in his house when stray bullets fired by Indian forces hit him.

Muhammad Aadil, 18, was also injured by Indian firing while sitting in his house.

All the three injured were admitted to the local Combined Military Hospital in critical condition.

Three buffaloes were killed when four anti-tank landmines blew up in border village Chak Nao.

The official sources said five buffaloes were grazing in the fields when four anti-tank landmines went off, killing three of them on the spot and injuring the two others.

The sources said the Indian security forces continued intensified firing on Tuesday on border villages in Bajwat, Chaprar, Harpal, Akhnoor, Sucheetgarh and Shakargarh sectors.

FUNDS: The Punjab government has provided Rs1.5 million to the district Baitul Maal Committee for providing financial assistance to the needy and deserving persons.

Sources told newsmen on Tuesday that some 147 needy persons had, so far, availed the financial assistance.

Meanwhile, socio-political circles of the district have urged the governor that the procedure to get financial assistance should be simplified.

PHOTOGRAPHER DIES: Press photographer Ameen Abid Rizvi died of a cardiac arrest here on Tuesday. He was 57.

He was laid to rest in his native graveyard in Sialkot city in the evening.