While majority of the injured are not in a condition to speak, their relatives recount the horror they went through after Pakistani side targeted their village at a time when they were getting ready for routine chores.
“We were aware that the situation was tense, but we never thought that our village would be attacked like this, if we had an iota of information we would have already shifted to safer place,” Harbans Lal, another relative of Mara Ram, said.
The border residents say yesterday’s firing from across the border was so intense that people were unable to rescue their injured relatives as it continued unabated.
“It was like Pakistani side was deliberately targeting civilian areas, they fired on the same spot again and again.
My father was injured as he received splinter in the neck and as I tried to save him there was another blast and I was injured in the leg, my daughter Pari was also injured in the blast,” 31-year-old Rakesh Kumar said.
(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:economictimes.indiatimes.com)
