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Indian firing injures 6 Pakistani nationals: official

Xinhua, October 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Pakistani officials said that Indian firing injured at least six people on Sunday, after days of a lull in cross-border shelling.

The paramilitary force Punjab Rangers said that the Indian Border Forces fired at the "civilian population" along the Working Boundary in Shakargarh sector.

They said Indian firing continued overnight and the whole day on Sunday, injuring six people. Two injured were taken to a military hospital in Sialkot, the major city near the border with India. Four were shifted to a nearby hospital.

The local authorities have also set a special medical camp to treat the injured, said the District Coordination Officer Najaf Iqbal adding the Indian firing also injured dozens of cattle heads of the locals.

The latest firing occurred despite both sides reached an agreement last month to implement the 2003 ceasefire.

Guns had relatively been silent since the ceasefire along the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region, however, both border troops occasionally trade fire. An escalation has been seen in recent months that caused casualties on both sides. Enditem