The restive Line of Control (LoC) dividing India and Pakistan was once again lit up on Wednesday morning with India launching massive retaliatory fire, a day after Pakistani border action teams (BAT) killed three Indian soldiers and mutilated the body of one of them.
Several sectors in the LoC are witnessing artillery gun fire and mortar shelling with the Neelam Valley, Kel and Keran taking the brunt. A latest Pakistani media report said at least 10 people were dead and another 14 wounded in two separate incidents in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
"Indian troops hit a passenger coaster with small and big arms in the town of Lawat, killing nine passengers and injuring eleven others," Dawn quoted Jamil Mir, superintendent of police (SP) in Neelum Valley, as saying.
Lawat is located 90 km north east of Islamabad in the upper belt of valley that straddles the restive Line of Control (LoC). The coaster was on its way to Muzaffarabad.
"Four bodies and all 11 injured persons have arrived in District Headquarters Hospital Athmuqam, but five bodies are still in the coaster," SP Mir said.
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