Solider killed, 4 hurt along LoC Injured in protests, man dies; Kashmir shutdown still on
Joshi said.
A senior officer said that a lieutenant and two junior commissioned officers were among the injured and they were airlifted to command hospital in Udhampur district.
For the third consecutive day, Pakistani troops have violated the ceasefire and targeted forward posts and villages in the twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri.
With the latest killing, the death toll in the Pakistani shelling along the LoC this year has gone up to 27. The dead included 13 security personnel and five members of a family who lost their lives when a shell hit their house in Balakote sector of Poonch district on March 18.
Pakistan troops have violated ceasefire along the LoC and International Border over 650 times this year, according to the Indian army.
: A 23-year-old man injured in clashes between security forces and protesters in Ganderbal district died in hospital on Tuesday, even as Kashmir remained shut for the second successive day following Sunday’s counter-insurgency operations, described by officials as the biggest in a long time.
“The injured man, Gowhar Ahmad Rather, has died,” said Dr Farooq Jan, medical superintendent of Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences. Rather had a firearm injury in his head, he added. A police statement on Rather’s injury, sustained on Monday, is awaited.
Protests erupted in the valley after Sunday’s security operations at three locations in south Kashmir left 13 militants, four civilians and three soldiers dead and more than 70 protesters injured.
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