India: Pakistan firing kills boy, teenage girl in Kashmir
NEW DELHI — Indian and Pakistani troops fired at each other in the disputed Kashmir region on Monday, killing a 10-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl and injuring 12 other civilians on the Indian side, officials said.
The boy and girl were killed in firing by Pakistani soldiers in the Poonch sector on the Indian-administered side of Kashmir, police said.
Police said the injured included a 5-year-old girl.
Indian military spokesman Col. Nitin Joshi said that Pakistani soldiers targeted several posts with automatic gunfire and mortar shells and that the Indian army was “retaliating strongly and effectively.”