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| Teenage boy killed in AJK due to cross-LoC shelling by Indian troops |
| 2018-11-01 |
| [DAWN] A teenage boy lost his life in Leepa valley of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) after Indian troops resorted to heavy shelling on Wednesday, a day after less intense firing by them in Neelum Valley, officials said. Eighteen-year-old Haroon fell victim to the Indian shelling in Bijildhar village of Leepa Valley, located nearly 100 kilometres southeast of Muzaffarabad. Imran Shaheen, the deputy commissioner of Hattian Bala, of which Leepa Valley is an administrative unit, told Dawn that the shelling began at about 4pm and was continued into the evening. "Due to darkness and poor telecommunication links with the mountainous area we are unable to immediately ascertain complete information of losses," he said. "Once the shelling stops or at least subsides, we may receive exact detail of losses," he added. Shaukat Javed Mir, a PPP leader belonging to Leepa Valley, told Dawn that the shelling was intense and caused panic in the area. "Those who have bunkers or trenches within or alongside their houses have taken shelter there due to which we are unable to establish contact with anyone there," he said. According to Mir, there had also been shelling for more than an hour in the morning, "but from post to post" on opposite sides. Since a similar exchange of fire between the rival troops had also taken place on the night of October 26, the civilian population was caught off guard when Indian troops started pounding the area with mortar shells in the afternoon, he said. The last civilian casualty in Leepa Valley was reported on February 21, when a teenaged boy was critically injured in Indian shelling. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Eighteen-year-old |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-11-01 08:57 |