Fog grips N India, trains cancelled, 3 killed in mishaps
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH/LUCKNOW: North India came under the grip of dense fog on Christmas Day that resulted in the death of at least three people, including an Ukranian girl, and cancellation of at least 17 trains and four accidents in Uttar Pradesh.
Officials said 26 trains were delayed and six were rescheduled. Fog covered the northern plains in the past week, with the weather department saying that conditions will worsen in Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal.
Srinagar recorded the coldest night of this winter on Sunday as the minimum temperature dipped to minus 4.2° Celsius even as the rest of the Kashmir valley reeled under sub-zero temperatures.
THE INDIAN MILITARY DENIED THE ALLEGATION, SAYING THE SOLDIERS PROBABLY DIED IN COUNTERFIRE
JAMMU: Three Pakistani soldiers were killed after Indian troops responded to unprovoked firing from the other side of the Line of Control, the de facto border between the two countries, in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.
But the Pakistani army’s publicity wing, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), posted on its website that Indian soldiers killed three Pakistani troopers “in act of unprovoked fire”.
“India initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation along LoC at Rakhchikri, Rawlakot sector. Three soldiers embraced shahadat (died).One injured,” the post reads. The Rawlakote sector is in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The Indian military denied the allegation, saying the soldiers probably died in counter-fire.
Pakistan army had killed an Indian army officer and two soldiers in the Keri sector along the LoC in Rajouri district on Saturday. The slain soldiers were major Moharkar Prafulla Ambadas, lance naiks Gurmail Singh and Naik Kuldeep Singh and sepoy Pargat Singh. The sepoy was fatally wounded when Pakistan fired without provocation in a case of ceasefire violation on Indian posts in Rajouri. Another soldier was also wounded.
Reports attributed to sources, which HT couldn’t independently verify, said the Indian army also killed a Pakistani sniper in Rajouri district on Sunday.