ISLMABAD – On Tuesday, two persons were killed and eight were injured inNeelum valley alone, while elsewhere 8 persons were injured in Nauserisector of Muzaffarabad district and 10 in Leepa valley of district HattianBala by indiscriminate firing from Indian Army.
However, many casualties in Leepa could not reported on Tuesday due to poortelecommunications network.
Located some 40 kilometres northeast of Muzaffarabad, Nauseri is thegateway to Neelum valley as well as the site of the composite dam of969-megawatt Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project (NJHP), along the main NeelumValley Road.
It was after many years that Nauseri sector was also indiscriminatelyshelled by Indian troops on Tuesday.
During the shelling, at least one mortar shell had also landed at the mouthof the dam and one several yards ahead of the spillways while five hadstruck a landslide across the dam, causing no damage to any structure,according to Badar Munir, deputy commissioner of Muzaffarabad.
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An AJK police constable who was guarding Nauseri Bridge near the dam sitewas critically injured after being hit by shrapnel from a shell in theabdomen.
It was in the wake of that shelling that the authorities had evacuated morethan 50 Chinese nationals, working at the composite dam site, toMuzaffarabad on Tuesday evening.
On Wednesday, sporadic small arms fire between Pakistani and Indianmilitary posts was reported from parts of Neelum valley.
