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An Indian Army officer was killed in a gunfight with terrorists who had sneaked into Indian territory, taking cover of firing from the Pakistani side in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, 22 October, officials said.
In a separate incident on Tuesday, two civilians were injured in cross-border shelling on villages along the LoC in J&K’s Poonch district.
In the ensuing gunfight, a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Army was critically injured and later succumbed to his injuries, he said, adding that Pakistani troops also fired at the Indian side in the sector.
The gunfight continued till reports last came in from the area, the officer said.
"Today, a JCO was killed in Nowshera sector," a Defence spokesman said in a brief statement following the fresh ceasefire violation by Pakistan along the LoC in Rajouri district.
The latest cross-border firing came two days after the Indian Army, in a major counter-offensive in retaliation to Pakistan's unprovoked action, carried out heavy artillery strikes targeting four terror launch pads and several Pakistani military positions in Neelam Valley in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), killing six to 10 of their soldiers and nearly 20 militants.
The Defence spokesman said the shelling in Balakot sector in Poonch ended around 2 pm.
While the injured woman, Gulabo Bano, was shifted to hospital, the other was discharged after first-aid, the officials said.
On Saturday, Pakistani troops had resorted to firing in Tangdhar sector of Kashmir along the LoC to assist infiltration by militants, in which two Indian Army personnel and a civilian were killed. Three others were injured in the attack.
Two soldiers and a woman were also killed in separate incidents of ceasefire violations by Pakistan in north Kashmir's Uri sector, Nowshera in Rajouri and Shahpur sector in Poonch district between October 12 and 15.
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