“We have asked the authorities to ensure safety of the people as firing and shelling exchanges have increased. We don’t want civilian to suffer”, IG BSF Jammu Frontier, D K Uphadayaya said.
Deputy Commissioner, Kathua Ramesh Kumar and SSP Kathua Pawan Parihar village and joined the evacuation operation of 232 people.
They were accommodated in Government Higher Secondary school, Hiranagar while 145 people of Londi and Rajgrain Brahamana were lodged in Government Middle School, Chhan Khatrian. Some families had left for the houses of their relatives, DC said.
“We were very terrorised this time due to heavy shelling and firing by Pakistan”, Manak Chand of Bobiya said at camp here.
70-year-old Chand said, “The windows of our houses were shaking with the sound of mortar bombs and firing of heavy weapons. It as unbearable to stay in home after being witness to the two days of firing.
Like him, Sukho Devi migrated from the hamlet several times and this is another exodus from her border home.
“We have fled homes several times in the past few decades and before that in wars.It is now a routine for us as border people live in the jaws of deaths.You never know what is going to happen next moment,” she adds.
(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:economictimes.indiatimes.com)
