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Pakistan violates ceasefire, heavy firing from across LoC

| | Oct 18, 2016, at 08:40 pm
Rajouri, Oct 18 (IBNS) : Pakistani troops once again violated ceasefire by resorting to shelling and firing on Indian positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu’s Rajouri district through Monday and Tuesday.

Media reports quoted a  Defence spokesman as saying that Pak troops started "unprovoked firing" around  8:30 p.m. on Monday evening which continued till 1:30 pm on Tuesday.

The troops reportedly fired 82 mm mortar bombs, used small and automatic weapons on Indian posts in Naushera.

The Indian Army also retaliated the Pak firing.

On Sunday, an Indian soldier was killed in a sniper fire from the Pakistani side in Rajouri..

 

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