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| 2 school toppers among 5 killed in Poonch shelling laid to rest | | Locals urge India, Pakistan to shun path of confrontation | |  M S Nazki
Early Times Report
MENDHAR, Mar 18 , While a Poonch family lost five members, Gousia Academy Dhargloon lost two of its toppers.
The five persons of the family including Mohammad Ramzan (45), his wife Malika Bi (40) and their three sons Abdul Rehman (8th class student), Abdul Rizwan (7th class student) and Nazarat (2nd class student) were killed while two of their daughters Nowreen (5th class student) and Mehreen (Ist class student) were critically injured when a shell hit their house amid Indo-Pak cross-border at Devta Dhargloon area of Balakote sector.
Both the injured were airlifted to Government Medical College Hospital Jammu for treatment.
The family members had just gathered to have tea together at 7:40 am when a shell hit their one-room mud house killing five of them on spot and left two minor daughters injured.
Among the sons, Rehman was 8th class topper while Rizwan topped 7th standard exams.
"The brothers were toppers of our school and the entire school is mourning their demise. There can be nothing tragic than losing two precious gems," Mohammad Marouf Principal of the school, said. Ramzan's brother Abdul Shakoor said that they heard the blast at around 7:40 am today and what unfold was the biggest tragedy for the family.
The slain members have been buried as the entire village mourns the demise of the innocents. The villagers urged India and Pakistan to shun the path of confrontation so that innocents are not made to suffer.
They said that it is the people of Jammu and Kashmir who suffer both humans as well as property losses.
SSP Poonch Rajiv Panday along with his team arrived at the spot and took stock of the situation.
While talking to Early Times he said that the house was hit by a shell fired by the Pakistani army. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti expressed anguish over the loss of lives and stressed the need for peace if we want to save the people of the state. In a tweet she said that she is Anguished to hear the loss of live in the crossfire along the LoC. "My deepest condolences to their family," she said.
"Peace is the only way forward. Initiatives were started by (former Prime Minister A B) Vajpayee Ji with his Lahore bus journey & were later carried on in the same spirit by PM @narendramodi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi). Sadly they were sabotaged at Pathankot. We need to get on the right track if we want to save the people of J&K," she said in another tweet, referring to the scene of the 2016 terror attack on an Air Force Station in Punjab.
Inspector General of Police, Jammu, S D S Jamwal said the civil administration was "alive to the situation" and appropriate precautionary actions would be taken to ensure safety of civilians. "The firing has stopped and the local administration has reached the area. We have rushed bullet proof vehicles to the affected villages," he told reporters on the sidelines of a function here. |
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