J&K
20-year-old youth injured in cross border succumbs, toll mounts to four
Srinagar : A civilian, who was injured in cross LoC shelling in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Friday succumbed to his injuries taking the number of civilians who were killed in the shelling in north Kashmir, to four.
As per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the slain civilian has been identified as Afrar Ahmed, 20, son of Muhammad Lateef, a resident of Kamalkote,
“He had multiple splinter injuries and breathed his last in a local hospital at Uri,” the official said.
Officials said that Pakistani troopers resorted to heavy firing and used mortars, small arms, triggering a chaos in dozens of Uri villages especially Kamalkote, Nambla, Dulanja and others.
“Four civilians died due to the intense shelling today,” officials said—(KNO)