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Three injured in Pak shelling

Three people were injured in unprovoked shelling by Pakistani troops in the Uri sector on Monday morning, while four people, two of them security personnel, and a village defence committee member, were killed overnight in terrorist violence.

Pakistani troops fired mortar and artillery shells in the Uri sector around 1100 hours on Monday, targeting civilian areas and security installations. Three people were injured when some shells landed at Selikote in Uri. They were hospitalised, a report from Baramullah said.

Indian troops retaliated and the exchange of fire continued for about three hours. Casualties on the Pakistani side were not immediately known.

Earlier, two security personnel were killed when militants attacked a search party at Magam-Handwara in the frontier district of Kupwara on Sunday night, an official spokesman said. However, the militants managed to escape into the dense forest under the cover of darkness.

The spokesman said militants shot dead a village defence committee member Randhir Singh near Maar Dhar late on Sunday night and took away his weapon, while the body of one Mushtaq Ahmad Kaul was recovered from village Koimoh Kulgam on Monday morning.

Security forces averted a major tragedy when they detected and defused a powerful improvised explosive device at village Dangri Vilgam in Kupwara on Sunday night.

UNI

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