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Woman, child killed in cross border shelling in Pakistan: Report

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Srinagar :   Pakistan on Monday claimed that Indian firing along International Border in Sialkot killed an elderly woman and a minor girl and 24 others, including four children and eight women, were injured.

According to a report by DawnNews the woman and a minor girl were killed in mortar shelling by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on villages along the Working Boundary on Sunday.

Fazalaan Bibi, 60, wife of Rehmat Ali, died when mortar shells hit her dwelling in Kachi Maand village, the report said.

According to the report Nargis Fatima, the five-year-old daughter of Shahid Iqbal, also a resident Kachi Maand, was rushed to the Sialkot CMH with head injuries where she died

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