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The incident occurred at around 1.15 am on Sunday when Pakistan Rangers resorted to heavy firing and shelling on the Indian forward duty positions in Patgwal area of the International Border

(IB). Volunteers and police personnel carry a resident who was injured in cross-border firing, in Jammu on Sunday Days after it agreed to uphold the ceasefire on borders, Pakistan reneged

its promise and resorted to heavy firing and shelling on the forward duty positions and civilian areas along the border, leaving two BSF soldiers including an officer dead and injuring 14

others in the Akhnoor and Kana Chak sectors of Jammu division. The incident occurred at around 1.15 am on Sunday when Pakistan Rangers resorted to heavy firing and shelling on the Indian

forward duty positions in Patgwal area of the International Border (IB). "Two BSF troopers sustained injuries and both were evacuated immediately to medical facilities. However they

succumbed to their injuries," said a BSF spokesman at Jammu Frontier. The slain have been identified as assistant sub inspector Satya Narayan Yadav and constable Vijay Kumar Pandey.

Yadav hailed from Baspur village of Devaria in Uttar Pradesh while constable Pandey was a resident of Sathiyawan village of Fatehpur district in UP. The Border Security Force troops

immediately swung into action and retaliated in equal measure to silence Pakistan's guns. "This unprovoked fire is being retaliated by other duty points and posts adequately,"

said the BSF spokesman. Around 31 villages and nearly 27,000 people living in sub divisions of Marh and Khour have been affected by Pakistan's cross-border shelling. Later, Pakistan

Rangers switched gears and pounded civilian areas injuring more than 14 people in Kana Chak, Pargawal and Akhnoor sectors. The Pakistan Rangers are using long-range weapons including 120-mm

mortars, which has a range of seven kilometre, and 82-mm mortars, which has the range of 4.5 km, to inflict maximum damage deep into the civilian areas. "There was shelling in different

areas including Kana Chak, Shama Chak, Pargawal and others. Around 14 people including one policeman were injured in the shelling. Mobile bunkers of police and CRPF have been pressed into

service to help the civilians evacuate," said Arun Manhas, additional deputy commissioner of Jammu. Jammu and Kashmir government has put the entire administrative machinery on alert to

meet any eventuality. "We have kept ourselves ready in case of any eventuality. We have readied six shelter camps to lodge people in case of any migration. So far there is no

migration," said Manhas. The fresh shelling comes five days after Director General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan agreed to "fully implement" the

ceasefire pact of 2003 in "letter and spirit" to stop cross-border firings in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti urged both the DGMOs to talk again

to stop bloodshed and shelling on the borders. "It is unfortunate that despite talks between the two DGMOs this has happened. It should not have happened. The DGMOs of the two counties

should talk again because people from both sides are dying. Bloodshed and shelling should be stopped," she said.