JOIN USLoC flare-up: injured BSF man succumbs
A BSF head constable, who was injured in cross-border shelling on Sunday along the Line of Control in Rajouri sector of Jammu and Kashmir, succumbed to injuries on Monday.
“Four BSF jawans suffered splinter injures due to heavy shelling from Pakistan side along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri sector on Sunday night. Among them head constable Rai Singh, who was seriously injured, succumbed to his injuries, while the condition of another jawan is serious,” a BSF official said.
Singh, a resident of Jhajjar district of Haryana, is survived by his wife, three sons and mother.
Reports said the intermittent shelling from across the border was going on in Nowshehra and Sunderbani sectors of Rajouri on Monday.
The BSF and the Indian Army were responding to Pakistani shelling appropriately.
There have been 290 ceasefire violations on Indian posts and civilian areas along the LoC and International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir after the Indian Army carried out surgical strikes on terror launch pads in PoK on September 29. Twenty-six people, including 12 civilians and 14 security personnel have been killed and nearly 100 people, mostly civilians have been injured in these incidents.
There is 198-km IB and over 510 km of LoC with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir.
Pak summons Indian diplomat
Pakistan on Monday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner J P Singh and lodged a protest over alleged ceasefire violations by India at the LoC that resulted in the death of four civillians, and also over New Delhi’s refusal of diplomatic flight clearance to Pakistani aircraft, reports PTI. “Singh was told that the deliberate targeting of civilian populated areas was highly deplorable,” the foreign office said.