BSF jawan from Pehowa, 6-year-old boy killed as Pak violates ceasefire

Amir Tantray

Tribune News Service

Jammu, October 24

A BSF jawan and a six-year-old boy were killed while three others were injured on Monday as Pakistani troops violated ceasefire, resorting to heavy shelling and firing from automatic weapons in several sectors along the International Border in Jammu district.

Pakistani troops fired mortar bomb shells and fired from automatic weapons, targeting over 25 border outposts (BOPs) and civilian villages in several sectors along the International Border (IB) in Jammu district.

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“Pakistan Rangers opened indiscriminate firing and mortar shelling on forward BOPs and civilian areas in several sub-sectors along IB (in Jammu district) overnight,” a senior BSF officer said.

There has been firing of small and automatic weapons and shelling of mortar bombs on over 25 BoPs and civilian areas in RS Pura, Arnia, Suchetgarh, Kanachak, Pargwal sub-sectors of Jammu district since Sunday night and it is still on, the officer said.

“In the firing and shelling, a BSF jawan was martyred and another was injured,” the officer said, adding that the BSF troops guarding the IB were giving a befitting reply.

The deceased jawan has been identified as Constable Sushil Kumar, who hailed from Pehowa, Kurukshetra, in Haryana.

A six-year-old boy, Vicky, a resident of Lalyal Kanachak, was killed during shelling. His mother, Buniya Devi, was one of the two women, who were injured in the firing in RS Pura sector and who have been hospitalised.

There have been over 40 incidents of ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops since India carried out surgical strikes in PoK after the Uri terror attack in which 19 Indian soldiers were killed. With PTI