A Border Security Force jawan was killed in a sniper attack by the Pakistani army from the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district.
A senior BSF officer told media that the Pakistani army violated the ceasefire and targeted a jawan of the border guarding force, who was on duty at a post along the International Border near Samba sector, with sniper fire.
He said Pakistani Rangers suddenly fired on a BSF patrol party. Constable Tapan Mondal was seriously injured in the fire and was shifted to hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
"Twenty five year old, Tapan Mondal is survived by his mother Sumitra Mondal," he said
According to senior Army officers in the security grid involved in monitoring developments on the LoC and IB, the use of sniper fire by Pakistani side has been expanded to multiple locations in the Kashmir Valley as well, and the use of sniper guns and the fatalities caused by them have increased in recent months and there is also a sharp increase in ceasefire violations by Pakistan army.
Recently senior Army commanders of India and Pakistan had held a flag meeting at the LoC in the Poonch sector and agreed to put mechanisms in place for sustainable peace and tranquillity along the border.
