Srinagar, Dec 23: Three army personnel were killed in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Keri Batallion area along the Line of Control (LoC) on Saturday. Unconfirmed media reports suggested that the Pakistan Army, violating the ceasefire agreement, fired indiscriminately on the Indian posts without any provocation. The deceased personnel were identified as–Major Prafulla, Sepoy Pargarh and Sepoy Gurmeet Singh of 2 Sikh battalion.
On October 31, Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire by firing from small arms along the LoC in Karmara belt of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, resulting in injuries to a girl. [Also read: 190 Terrorists Killed in 2017 in J&K, Over 2850 Were Eliminated in 2001]
There was another incident on October 26, when Pakistani troops fired at Sher Shakti and Mandhar areas of Kerni sector. No casualty was reported in the firing. On October 18, eight civilians, including a two-year-old child, were injured in heavy Pakistani shelling.
Pakistan has violated the ceasefire a total of 881 times along the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir this year resulting in the killing of 30 people.
In 2016, there were 449 incidents of ceasefire violations in which 13 civilians and 13 security personnel were killed and 83 civilians and 99 security personnel were injured.
(With inputs from agencies)