On Sunday, Pakistani Rangers resorted to unprovoked mortar shelling and firing of small arms along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pargwal and Kanachak areas which rendered 2-BSF Personnel dead and 11 civilians including 2 women injured.
The dead have been identified as ASI Satya Narayan Yadav of Baspar village in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh and Constable Vijay Kumar Pandey of Shalehpur village in Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh.
This unprovoked firing came after 5 days of India and Pakistan agreed to maintain the 2003 ceasefire agreement in letter and spirit. Director Generals, Military Operations, (DGMOs) of both countries had agreed to undertake measures to improve the situation along the borders.
According to The Indian Express, sources said the small arms fire from across the border started around 2.15 am, with Pakistani Rangers targeting BSF’s Zaman Bela border outpost, killing ASI Yadav and constable Pandey on the spot.
Thereafter, they started shelling civilian areas. Soon, other places, including the adjoining Kanachak area, came under mortar shelling and small arms fire. The firing left six civilians, including a woman, injured. Five other civilians were injured in shelling in Paragwal area, sources said.
A total of 42 people, including 21 security personnel, have been killed so far in cross-border firing and mortar shelling this year.
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