<p>An 18-year-old boy was killed on Thursday evening in Pakistan shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Mendhar area of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir.</p>.<p>Officials said at around 7 pm, when people in villages were busy in Iftaar amid fasting, Pakistan Army violated ceasefire and started mortar shelling in Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch.</p>.<p>"Civil population of five villages in the area came under shelling,” they said.</p>.<p>An 18-year-old-boy identified as Gulfraz Ahmed of Tain Mankote village got hurt when a mortar shell exploded near their house and its splinters pierced his chest, they said.</p>.<p>"The boy died on the spot," a police official confirmed and added that intermittent firing and shelling was going on in the area till late in the evening.</p>
<p>An 18-year-old boy was killed on Thursday evening in Pakistan shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Mendhar area of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir.</p>.<p>Officials said at around 7 pm, when people in villages were busy in Iftaar amid fasting, Pakistan Army violated ceasefire and started mortar shelling in Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch.</p>.<p>"Civil population of five villages in the area came under shelling,” they said.</p>.<p>An 18-year-old-boy identified as Gulfraz Ahmed of Tain Mankote village got hurt when a mortar shell exploded near their house and its splinters pierced his chest, they said.</p>.<p>"The boy died on the spot," a police official confirmed and added that intermittent firing and shelling was going on in the area till late in the evening.</p>
