Jammu (NVI): An eighteen-year-old teenage boy from Tain Mankote village of Mendhar in Poonch district of Jammu was killed this evening in shelling by Pakistani troops, defence officials said.
At around 7 PM, when people in Mendhar village were preparing to break their Ramzan fast, Pakistan violated ceasefire by starting mortar shelling in Krishna Ghati sector and Mankote sector.
“Civil population of five villages in the area came under shelling,” the officials said.
Eighteen-year-old Gulfraz Ahmed of Tain Mankote village also got injured when a mortar shell exploded near his house and its splinters hit him in the chest.
“Boy died on the spot,” a police official confirmed.
