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Pak firing forces villagers to flee border hamlets

Samba Border :  With Pakistani troops pounding civilian areas with mortar shells and heavy firing, villagers living along the Indo-Pak border have been forced to flee their homes to safer places.“We sent our women, children

PTI Updated on: October 20, 2013 18:43 IST


However, Manu said a contingency plan has been put in place in view of the increase in ceasefire violations and all community centres and other government buildings have been kept ready to house people in case of any exigency.  

The number of ceasefire violations has increased several fold this year as Pakistani troops violated border truce nearly 130 times along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir, the highest in the last eight years.

Seven persons were killed and 24 others injured in border firing and attacks on forward posts along the LoC and the IB in Jammu and Kashmir since August 1 this year.

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