Srinagar: At least 13 people, including four children and a soldier, were killed and 57 injured as exchange of fire along LoC in J&K intensified on Wednesday, said officials. Army's White Knight Corps paid tributes to Lance Naik Dinesh Kumar for laying down his life during Pakistan shelling. Army said they also stand in solidarity with all victims.
After India carried out strikes in Pakistan and PoK in the early hours of Wednesday, apprehensions of escalation grew in J&K. Airports in Srinagar and Jammu were closed for all civilian flights and examinations postponed at least till May 10. Locals started hoarding essential items and queues of people were seen outside ATMs, banks and petrol stations. Several schools across were closed as well. The administration set up control rooms across J&K to deal with any eventuality.
Artillery and mortar shelling in the forward areas continued for the 13th consecutive night, with the Poonch district along the LoC being the worst hit, where all 12 casualties took place and more than 40 people were injured. Shelling was reported from areas including Balakote, Mendhar, Mankote, Krishna Ghati, Gulpur, Kerni and Poonch district headquarters, resulting in damage to several houses and vehicles. At least three persons were injured in neighbouring Rajouri district. In Uri sector of Baramulla in northern Kashmir, 10 persons were injured in cross-border shelling while several houses caught fire due to shelling in Karnah sector of Kupwara district.
"We are reliving the horrors of the past. Sirens and blasts pierced the night. For the whole day we were transporting blood-soaked bodies, including of children," said Mustafa Khan of Poonch.
Scores of people were relocated to safer places in the forward areas of northern Kashmir as shells fell several kilometres inside the border.
The defence spokesperson in Srinagar said that during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, the Pakistan army resorted to arbitrary firing, including artillery shelling, from posts across LoC and International Border opposite J&K. "The Indian Army is responding in a proportionate manner," he said.
In the Wuyan area, about 20 km from Srinagar, an unknown flying object fell around 1:45 am, within minutes of Operation Sindoor. Locals said "it came down like a fireball" and the wreckage fell in three places. "We heard a loud bang and later multiple blasts were heard from the spot where the main wreckage had fallen in the lawn of a local school," said a local, who saw the wreckage, before police and paramilitary sealed the area.
After India carried out strikes in Pakistan and PoK in the early hours of Wednesday, apprehensions of escalation grew in J&K. Airports in Srinagar and Jammu were closed for all civilian flights and examinations postponed at least till May 10. Locals started hoarding essential items and queues of people were seen outside ATMs, banks and petrol stations. Several schools across were closed as well. The administration set up control rooms across J&K to deal with any eventuality.
Artillery and mortar shelling in the forward areas continued for the 13th consecutive night, with the Poonch district along the LoC being the worst hit, where all 12 casualties took place and more than 40 people were injured. Shelling was reported from areas including Balakote, Mendhar, Mankote, Krishna Ghati, Gulpur, Kerni and Poonch district headquarters, resulting in damage to several houses and vehicles. At least three persons were injured in neighbouring Rajouri district. In Uri sector of Baramulla in northern Kashmir, 10 persons were injured in cross-border shelling while several houses caught fire due to shelling in Karnah sector of Kupwara district.
"We are reliving the horrors of the past. Sirens and blasts pierced the night. For the whole day we were transporting blood-soaked bodies, including of children," said Mustafa Khan of Poonch.
Scores of people were relocated to safer places in the forward areas of northern Kashmir as shells fell several kilometres inside the border.
The defence spokesperson in Srinagar said that during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, the Pakistan army resorted to arbitrary firing, including artillery shelling, from posts across LoC and International Border opposite J&K. "The Indian Army is responding in a proportionate manner," he said.
In the Wuyan area, about 20 km from Srinagar, an unknown flying object fell around 1:45 am, within minutes of Operation Sindoor. Locals said "it came down like a fireball" and the wreckage fell in three places. "We heard a loud bang and later multiple blasts were heard from the spot where the main wreckage had fallen in the lawn of a local school," said a local, who saw the wreckage, before police and paramilitary sealed the area.
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