In the second incident of ceasefire violation this week, three Army jawans were injured, one of them critically, when Pakistani troops on Wednesday fired at Indian posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Krishna Ghati sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district.
“Pakistani troops resorted to a brief small arms firing on posts along LoC in Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district at around 2 pm today,” a defence spokesman said.
“In the firing one of our jawans got hit and while our boys were trying to extract him, the Pakistani troops opened fire again in which two more soldiers were injured. While the other two have been evacuated and shifted to Command Hospital, the first one could not be extracted till the last reports came in and his chances of survival are very slim,” he said.
The defence spokesman said the Indian troops did not retaliate at first, but when two more jawans got hit they fired back at the Pakistani posts.
He added that firing was stopped from the Indian side as the troops were trying to extract the body of the jawan.
This is the 12th ceasefire violation by Pakistan this year.
The spokesman said a strong protest has been registered against the incident.
Meanwhile, the BSF jawan who was injured in the ceasefire violation on Monday in the same sector succumbed to his injuries Wednesday morning, officials said.
Meanwhile, Pakistani authorities in Islamabad said two civilians, including a woman, were seriously injured in alleged firing by Indian troops in the Battal sector of the Line of Control on Wednesday.
Police officials at Rawalakot in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir claimed Indian troops fired “without any provocation” at Battal village.