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A 35-year-old woman was killed on Thursday and her husband injured in mortar shelling by Pakistani troops in Nowshera sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district.
A shell hit a village in Laam belt of Nowshera sector killing Akhtar Bi and injuring her husband Mohmmad Hanief, 40.
“The Pakistani army fired from small arms and automatic weapons from 10:40 last night on Indian Army posts along the LoC in Nowshera belt of Rajouri district,” a defence spokesman said.
They also shelled forward posts and civilian areas using 82 mm and 120 mm mortars, he said.
"The Indian Army posts are retaliating strongly and effectively. The firing is presently on," he said.
Army sources told ANI that two Pakistani army officers were injured in retaliatory firing.
Under the cover of heavy mortar fire, the Pakistani special forces team sneaked 250 metres across the Line of Control (LoC) into the KG sector of Poonch and beheaded the soldiers.
As many as 1,142 terror incidents were reported in the state between 2012 and 2016 in which 236 security personnel and 90 civilians were killed, it said.
According to the reply, Pakistan breached the truce along the Line of Control 449 times in 2016 as compared to 405 violations in 2015.
(With PTI inputs.)
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