Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 3: For second consecutive day today, Pakistani army violated the ceasefire by resorting to small arms fire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district.
“At about 4 pm, Pakistani army initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation with firing of small arms along the LoC in Qasba Sector in Poonch district,” reports said, adding that the Indian Army retaliated effectively.
However, there were no reports of any casualties or damage on the Indian side in Pakistan firing. Casualties, if any, on the Pakistan side couldn’t be ascertained immediately.
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Pakistani troops had resorted to shelling with mortars and firing of small arms on Thursday as well in Shahpur and Kirni sectors of Poonch district.
Schools along the LoC remained closed for the past two days in Poonch as a precautionary measure.
Ten people, including four soldiers, have been martyred and over 50 people injured in Rajouri and Poonch districts so far since India’s February 26 air strike on a JeM terror camp in Pakistan’s Balakote in which number of terrorists were killed in response to the Pulwama terror attack that left 44 CRPF personnel martyred.
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