Stage set for tomorrow’s polling in high profile Udhampur LS seat amid high security
Jammu and Kashmir has five Lok Sabha constituencies and each one will go to polls in separate phases because of security reasons.
Two soldiers were injured after Pakistani troops fired mortar shells and from small arms on areas along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch and Rajouri districts, prompting authorities to close schools in some places.
Defence Ministry sources said the Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violations using small arms, automatics and mortar shells.
Pakistani troops resorted to mortar shelling and fired from small arms on places in Poonch sector’s Figwar and Malti areas. One shell also landed in Poonch town, officials said.
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“Two soldiers were injured,” an official said. One of them, in Lam area of Rajouri, suffered sniper fire from across the LoC.
“Indian positions retaliated strongly. The injured soldiers have been shifted to hospital for treatment,” the official said.
The Pakistani attack started around 7 a.m.
Two mortar shells fired by the Pakistan Army landed close to the brigade headquarters in Poonch while another landed in a village.
Following the ceasefire violations, schools in several places along the LoC were shut for the day, they said.
These include schools in Degwar, Ajote, Malti and Karmara areas, they said.
(With agency inputs)
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