Pakistan on Monday said that an elderly woman and a minor girl were killed and 24 others, including four children and eight women, injured in mortar shelling by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on villages along the International Border on Sunday.
According to a report in the Dawn, local administration officials said the firing started in the small hours of Sunday morning and continued throughout the day.
Fazalaan Bibi, 60, wife of Rehmat Ali, died when mortar shells hit her dwelling in Kachi Maand village.
Nargis Fatima, the five-year-old daughter of Shahid Iqbal, also a resident Kachi Maand, was rushed to the Sialkot CMH with head injuries where she died. BSF shelling left 24 people injured in Ghanglora, Kachi Maand, Pull Bajwaan, Sohnti Dera, Deeyawara, Pandoliyaan, Deewanpur and Kakraan .
CEO of Sialkot District Health Authority Dr Latif Sahi said the injured were taken to the Sialkot Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in critical condition by the personnel of Rescue 1122 after initial treatment at the rural health center of Kahliyaan.
The report also said that dozens of buffaloes, cows and goats were also killed and injured in the shelling.
