A teenaged boy was killed and two other civilians injured in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Monday after Indian troops shelled two different sectors along the Line of Control (LoC), officials said. The casualties occurred in Leepa valley of Muzaffarabad division and Battal sector of Poonch division where “unprovoked” shelling from across t
he divi
de started at about 8am, according to the officials. “The shelling was unrelenting and indiscriminate between 8a
m and 11a
m and intermittent between 11a
m and 4pm,” said Ahmed Subhani, assistant commissioner of Leepa valley where a 10th-grade student was killed and a 5th-grade student injured in Manda Kuli village. “When the shelling started, 16-year-old Jawad came out of his house th
at he considered vulnerable to shelling and rushed towards another structure located at the back but fell victim to the shelling in the courtyard,” Subhani said. “Splinters pierced his abdomen, leaving him dead on the spot.” The official said 10-year-old Ehsan was injured in anot
her house, but his condition was out of danger.
