
Jammu and kashmir: five army soldiers wounded in cross-border shelling in mendhar
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Five army soldiers were wounded in cross-border shelling in Mendhar area of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. An official said that firing and shelling started today morning in
Balakote sector of Poonch, resulting in injuries to five soldiers. The injured soldiers – identified as Lance Naik Gaurav Vishnak (34), riflemanBudha Rai (33), Naik Jitender Verma (23),
Rahul Pandey (24) and Subedar Deshbandu (47) – were airlifted to Udhampur for specialized treatment. Earlier, police said that five members of a family were killed and two others critically
injured after a mortar shell landed on their house in Devta village of Balakote.