Jammu: The authorities on Friday decided to close at least 84 schools in Rajouri district of Jammu amid escalation in India and Pakistan skirmishes along the line of Control.
“We have closed 84 schools for three days upto Monday evening,” Deputy Commissioner Rajouri Shahid Iqbal Choudhary told INS. The areas include Rajouri, Manjakot, Dongi, Nowshera and Sunderbhani. He said that 27 camps have been established in the district for affected families.
Earlier on Frioday, two civilians and a Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel were killed while as over twenty persons were injured in separate incidents of cross border shelling in Jammu region on Friday.
A police spokesman said that due to “unprovoked” shelling by Pakistani forces along the border in RS Pura, Arina in Jammu, Ghagwal in Samba, Rajbagh in Kathua.
“Two civilians including a woman were killed by Pakistani firing in two separate incidents at RS Pura and Arina”, the spokesman said, adding that the woman died after hit by a shell at Arina sector while as a young man killed in RS Pura sector.
The spokesman said that 24 civilians and two BSF men sustained splinter injuries in these areas and were hospitalized.
