J K News Today

Jammu, January 18

A Border Security Force jawan was killed  in cross border firing  by Pakistani Rangers  in Arnia and R S Pura sectors late Wednesdaynight, BSF sources told  J K News Today.

The BSF troops  were retaliating in kind.

The latest ceasefire violation by Pakistan came two days after Indian Army had in retaliation to the killing of its Lance Naik Yogesh Muralidhar Bhadane, 28, of Khalane village in Maharashtra’s Dhule district was killed in Sunderbani sector had on on Monday killed  seven Pakistani  soldiers  in Kotli area across the LoC.

On January 3 also, a Border Security Force head constable R P Hazra of West Bengal’ s Murshidabad area was killed on his birthday in a sniper fire from Pakistan side. The next day, BSF had in retaliation killed nearly a dozen Pakistani Rangers across the international border opposite Samba sector.

At the moment heavy exchange of fire is going on . The exact details are awaited.