Jammu: Heavy firing erupted across the restive Line of Control (LoC) dividing India and Pakistan on Wednesday with India launching massive retaliatory attack, a day after Pakistani border action teams killed three Indian soldiers and mutilated the body of one of them.
Paksitani media said Indian troops resumed heavy shelling after a day-long lull and “targeted a passenger bus” in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir's (PoK) Lawat area, killing nine people and injuring 11 others. Pakistan Army also alleged that India also fired at an ambulance which went into the area for evacuation.
Several sectors in the LoC are witnessing artillery gun fire and mortar shelling with the Neelam Valley, Kel and Keran taking the brunt. Lawat is located 90 km north east of Islamabad in the upper belt of valley that straddles the restive Line of Control (LoC).
Dawn quoted PoK legislative assembly Speaker Shah Ghulam Qadir as saying that the situation was critical all along the LoC. He said since Neelum valley was highly vulnerable to Indian guns, "a great trial had begun for its nearly 250,000 residents," he said.
The Indian Army had earlier warned of a befitting reply to Pakistani aggression after three Indian soldiers were killed and the body of one jawan was mutilated in Machhal, Jammu and Kashmir, by Pakistani border action patrols on Tuesday.
"Retribution will be heavy for this cowardly act," the army had said in a statement.
This is the second incident in a month of a soldier's body being mutilated.
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