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An army officer, two Junior Commissioned Officers and two soldiers were injured on Tuesday when Pakistani troops indiscriminately shelled Indian positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Jammu’s Krishna Ghati (KG) sector on Tuesday.
As per media reports, among the injured were, Lt K Bhargava (23 years), Subedar Sameer Kashi Nath, Naib Subedar Mahlya Vikas Motilal, Naik Dhumal Sandeep and Sepoy Mastpuray Subham.
The injured have been airlifted to the military hospital.
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Pakistani Army initiated unprovoked and indiscriminate firing using mortars, small arms and automatics along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu’s Krishna Ghati (KG) sector on Tuesday.
The Indian Army was retaliating strongly, effectively and proportionately to the unprovoked cease fire violation, said spokesperson of the Army.
Pakistani troops started targeting Indian positions early in the morning at 7 am.
On Sunday, the three soldiers who died during the encounters in Kashmir belonged to Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
The three are Sepoy Hetram (25), who belonged to Sonigarsar village in Bikaner district of Rajasthan, Gunner Nilesh Singh of Nagri village in Sultanpur district of UP, and Gunner Arvinder Kumar of Sariana village in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab.
The three Indian Army soldiers were among the 20 people killed on Sunday in three separate encounters in Anantnag and Shopian districts of South Kashmir.
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Thirteen terrorists of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT), some of them top commanders, were eliminated in the gunfight. Among the killed terrorists were top commanders of the HM and LeT outfits. This is the highest number of terrorists killed in a single day since 2010.
Four civilians also lost their life during the encounters.
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