MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 28: A man was killed along the Line of Control in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday in unprovoked Indian shelling, police said.

The Indian troops, a police official said, resorted to shelling in The Neelum valley, in northeast of Muzaffarabad, at 10am, targeting the civilian populations in the valley’s lower and upper belts.

A 55-year-old man, identified as Mirza Khan, son of Marjan Khan, died in Kharigam village in the upper belt of valley after being hit by splinters of a mortar shell, the official told Dawn.