Islamabad/June,3: Pakistan army on Saturday claimed to have killed at least five Indian soldiers and injured many others while aggressively responding to shelling from across the restive Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Unprovoked CFV (ceasefire violation) at Tatta Pani (sector) along (the) LoC violently responded,” said Maj-Gen Asif Ghafoor, chief of Pakistan army’s media affairs wing – Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) – in a tweet.
“Indian bunkers destroyed, 5 Indian soldiers killed and many injured,” he claimed.
Tatta Pani sector is located in Kotli district of Pakistan administered Kashmir and is adjacent to Battal sector of district Poonch, where two civilians were killed and six others injured in Indian shelling on Thursday followed by injuries to two more persons in Nezapir sector of Haveli district on Friday.
Residents in Jandrot sector of district Kotli wrote in their social media posts that the LoC in their area had also witnessed exchange of heavy fire on Saturday.
However, so far no casualties had been reported from anywhere.
The heavily militarised LoC that splits disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan has been tense for quite some time, causing mostly civilian casualties on both sides.
The latest incidents of cross-border firing come days after Indian army had claimed that it carried out an operation on Pakistani posts along the LoC in a bid to prevent “infiltrators” from entering India.
However, Pakistan had denied India’s claim.
