Woman killed, 5 injured in Pak shelling in Jammu

JAMMU: A woman was killed and her husband and daughter-inlaw were injured when a mortar fired by Pakistan exploded in their house in Jammu and Kashmir’s Arnia sub-sector of RS Pura sector on Sunday, officials said. Three other people of another family were also injured in an explosion in the same area.

The woman was killed when the mortar exploded in their house in Ala village around 3am, said Arnia station house officer Satish Kumar.

The deceased woman was identified as Ratna Devi, and her injured husband as Chuni Lal and daughter-in-law Rajni Devi. With this, the death toll in Arnia since Thursday has reached two.

Earlier, BSF Jammu Frontier DIG Dharmender Pareekh said three other people were injured in Pakistani shelling in Arnia. They were injured when a shell exploded in their house in ward number 4 of Arnia town around 10 pm on Saturday.

Pareekh said Pakistani Rangers started firing without any provocation in Arnia, and Indian personnel retaliated in an effective manner. There was no loss of life or injury to BSF personnel.

The three injured civilians were identified as 65-year-old Maya Devi, 12-year-old Shubam and his 35-year-old mother Rajni Kumari. Maya Devi is being treated at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Jammu. On the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, BSF constable Brijendra Bahadur Singh was killed in a sniper fire.

A civilian, Ajay Kumar of Suhagpur Powal, was injured on Friday when a shell exploded on a road while he was coming out of a rice mill.