One jawan killed in J&K after Pakistan Army resorts to sniping in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch

A jawan was killed in Bhimber Gali after the Pakistan Army resorted to sniping along LoC in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district on Tuesday.

#FLASH: Naik Mahendra Chemjung lost his life in ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir's Bhimber Gali pic.twitter.com/OYwcfqqwkY

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Pakistan Army initiated unprovoked firing on Indian Army posts in the Krishna Ghati sector at around 12:50 pm on Tuesday. Indian Army retaliated strongly and effectively," a defence spokesman said. In the exchange of fire, Naik Mahendra Chemjung was grievously injured and succumbed to injuries, he said. Chemjung, 35, belonged to Chilingdin in Nepal and is survived by his wife Nayan Kala Chemjung and a son, the spokesman said. “Chemjung was a brave and sincere soldier. The nation will always remain indebted to him for the supreme sacrifice and devotion to duty,” he said. Earlier on Tuesday, in a predawn strike on Tuesday, Jaish-e-Mohammed militants carried out a fidayeen attack on a BSF camp located near Srinagar International airport, leaving three jawans injured. Two militants have been killed in counter-terror operations so far. Militants managed to enter the 182 Battalion camp in the city’s Humhama area and launched the attack at 4.30 am, according to police sources. [caption id=“attachment_4097771” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. PTI[/caption] Jammu and Kashmir Police IG, Munir Khan said that the successful coordination between the security forces helped eliminate the two terrorists who were holed up in a BSF compound at Humhama in Srinagar as early as possible without any collateral damage. On Monday, two policemen were injured in Juhama area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district after a grenade was lobbed towards a checkpost after which a case was registered. On 1 October, a ten-year-old boy and a teenage girl were killed while nine other civilians were injured as Pakistani troops opened fire and lobbed mortars at dozens of villages and posts along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. The spokesman said Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked and heavy firing and shelling from across the border in Dhigwar, Kerni and Shahpur sectors around 6:50 am. With inputs from PTI