SIALKOT, Feb 25: A villager was killed while two others hurt in three landmine blasts in the 220-kilometre Sialkot working boundary’s Bajwat, Bajragarhi-Merajkey and Shakargarh-Narowal sectors on Tuesday.

Official sources told this correspondent that a villager, Usman Ali, (32), while going through fields in Bajwat sector, stepped a heavy landmine, which went off and killed him on the spot.

In Bajragarhi-Merajkey sector’s Daajowal village, Azmat bibi, wife of Muhammad Akram, was grievously injured in a heavy landmine blast in the fields, where she was collecting woods. She was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital with one leg cut.

Another landmine blast left Abdul Sattar dead in Shakargarh-Narowal sector’s Ikhlaspur village. He was also taken to the CMH in critical condition.

Meanwhile, the Indian security forces continued firing in Sialkot and Narowal districts’ Chhumb-Joriyan, Bajwat, Bajragarhi, Charwa, Jammu, Akhnoor, Saamba and Zafarwal-Shakargarh-Narowal sectors, damaging more than six cattle sheds.

The sources confirmed that the Pakistani security forces responded instantly, handing over defensive loss the attackers.

DEATH SENTENCE: Daska Additional District and Sessions Judge Jamshed Husain on Tuesday handed down death sentence and Rs300,000 fine to three convicts, who killed four people over a land dispute.

According to the prosecution, convicts Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Ashiq and Master Nawaz killed Amanullah, Muhammad Mansha, Saqib Rahim and Muhammad Saleem in Nagor village, Daska tehsil, on September 26, 1998.

Meanwhile, Sialkot Additional District and Sessions Judge Tariq Mehmood Malik awarded death sentence and Rs100,000 fine to Muhammad Ilyas, who the court said killed a man named Akhtar Ali in Ghazipur, Sialkot Cantonment, in 2001.