BSF firing near Sialkot leaves five injured: ISPR
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RAWALPINDI: Cross-border firing between Indian and Pakistani security forces near Sialkot on Tuesday morning left five injured, a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)
said.
The ISPR said that "unprovoked shelling" across the Working Boundary in Sukhial village injured three children and two women.
The ISPR added that Pakistani troops responded to the shelling in a "befitting" manner.
In July, Pakistani officials blamed Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) for killing four civilians in two separate incidents of cross-border firing in Sialkot's Chaprar sector and Rawalakot's Neza Pir sector.
India moreover accused Pakistan of killing three border guards and one civilian.
Tensions along the border between the two neighbours have escalated despite an hour-long meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Ufa, Russia on July 10.
A border ceasefire agreement signed by the neighbours in 2003 has largely held, but both frequently accuse each other of breaching it.