Jammu, A Border Security Force
(BSF) trooper was on Monday killed in mortar shelling by Pakistan on the
international border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
The
Border Security Force (BSF) constable – identified as Devinder Singh of the 9th
battalion – was killed in shelling by the Pakistan Rangers on Khawada post, a
police official told here.
Pakistan
also resorted to unprovoked shelling at three places in Ramgarh sector, also in
Samba district, at 2 p.m. The BSF retaliated using same calibre weapons. Tension
gripped areas close to the international border in Samba, Kathua and Jammu
districts, as mortars fired by Pakistan landed as close as three km to the
strategic Pathankote-Jammu national highway.
Police said mortars fired at
Keso-Kamoor village of Ramgarh sector caused extensive damage to the house of
villager Buti Ram. Monday’s shelling by Pakistan came after a lull of two days.
On Saturday, three people — two BSF troopers and a woman — were killed and 10
people were injured in Pakistani firing along the international border in Jammu
region and the Line of Control in the Kashmir Valley.
More than 3,000 people in
border villages in Samba and Kathua have abandoned their homes and are living
in makeshift accommodations at safer places.
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