Jammu, May 7 -- In the aftermath of Pakistan's unprovoked and inhuman shelling in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, authorities have evacuated hundreds of residents from villages along the Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB) to safer locations as a precautionary measure.
Evacuations have been ordered across border areas from Kathua to the Chicken Neck region in the Akhnoor sector. All villages located within a 5-kilometre aerial radius of the IB have been advised to move to safer zones.
Earlier in the day, 12 civilians - including four children and two women - were killed and over 50 injured when the Pakistani Army launched intense shelling on forward villages in the Poonch, Rajouri, Baramulla, and Kupwara districts. Th...