Two civilians martyred in Indian shelling

Two freedom fighters and an Indian soldier were killed Tuesday along LoC, where the two sides traded fire for a second day. Army spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said Indian soldiers exchanged fire with unknown combatants as they tried to cross the Line of Control (LoC) into Indian-held Kashmir. "Two bodies and three weapons were recovered from the site of the firing," Kalia told AFP. In a separate incident an Indian soldier shot and killed his senior officer at a frontier post in Uri following a dispute between the two, Kalia said.
An investigation by the army and police is under way. Pakistani officials meanwhile said that at least two civilians were killed and 11 others wounded in cross-border firing by Indian soldiers. "A man and woman were martyred and seven others were wounded in firing by Indian troops in Sumahni sector," local government official Chaudhry Guftar told AFP. Pakistan government official Raja Arshad said four people were also wounded when another volley of shots were fired across the border into Nakyal sector.