Hoshiarpur soldier killed in Pak shelling in J&K

JAMMU/HOSHIARUR: A soldier was killed and another injured in Pakistani shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Nowshera sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Friday morning, officials said.

The dead soldier was identified as 34-year-old Naik Bakhtawar Singh of 8 Sikh Light Infantry, and a resident of Hajipur village in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur.

“Pakistan Army opened heavy fire around 4am and the exchange lasted around 20 minutes. During brief exchanges, two Indian soldiers were injured at Kalsian. One of them died around 5am,” an intelligence official said.

Bakhtawar Singh is survived by his wife, Jasbir Kaur, and three minor children. Motivated by his Pritam Singh, who was also in the army, Bakhtawar joined the army in 2003. His elder brother is also a soldier.

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