Panic grips Jammu’s border villages after Pakistan’s unprovoked firing

Dinesh Manhotra
Tribune News Service
Jammu, June 4 

Panic gripped residents in Changia, Treva, Arnia, Pindi and Alla villages of Jammu district after Pakistani Rangers resorted to unprovoked firing on villagers engaged in constructing a road.

The road would connect a cremation ground situated near the International Border (IB) in Pindi village.

Sarpanch of Changia village, Kusum Lata, said that villagers were constructing although the construction of the road was taking place nearly 500 meters behind the fence, Pakistani Rangers resorted to firing.

Fear-stricken villagers stopped the work midway, leaving their tractor and JCB machine behind.

“Unprovoked firing to stop people from repairing the road has caused panic among villagers,” she said.

After a lull of more than one year, Pakistani Rangers have targeted this belt which earlier used to bear the maximum brunt of shelling and firing from across the border.

Meanwhile, reports have also suggested that Pakistan resorted to unprovoked firing in Hiranagar sector in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Thursday morning.

Pakistan Rangers targeted residential areas of nearby villages in which houses were damaged. However, no losses to human life or injuries have been reported yet.