Poonch, May 13 -- The shells not only broke their homes but also hopes. Once filled with laughter, an eerie silence hangs over the houses destroyed by shelling from across the border in Poonch.

The walls of the house of Vihaan Bhargav, 13, are filled with his sketches and drawings. His once active pet dog now sits silently in the courtyard of their modest home in Dungus, Poonch - a quiet witness to his absence.

Bhargav is among the minors in the border town of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir, who were killed in the cross-border shelling from Pakistan. The family was attempting to flee to Jammu when the shelling intensified in the town. A Pakistani mortar shell hit their car in Bhainch being driven by his father Sajeev Kumar. The shell hit t...