Jammu Schools Closed: Holiday Declared In Five Districts Of Jammu As Cross-Border Firing Continues Along LoC

Jammu Schools Closed: The Jammu administration on Wednesday declared a holiday for all educational institutions in five districts across Jammu in the wake of the prevailing situation in the area. Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire and resorted to arbitrary firing from posts across the Line of Control and the International Border opposite Jammu and Kashmir. The ceasefire violation came hours after India launched "Operation Sindoor" and struck nine hideouts of terrorists in Pakistan and PoK.

"In view of the prevailing situation, all schools, colleges and educational institutions in Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Rajouri and Poonch will remain closed today," Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar said on X.

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Three civilians were killed in overnight heavy firing and shelling by the Pakistan military across the Line of Control and International Border in Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian Army is responding to the shelling in equal measure. Among the deceased was a woman whose house was hit by a mortar shell in the Mankote area of Poonch district. Nine more civilians were also injured in different sectors of Poonch due to intense shelling by Pakistan.

Besides Mankote, heavy shelling from across the border was reported in Krishna Ghati and Shahpur sectors in Poonch, Laam, Manjakote and Gambeer Brahmana in Rajouri district in Jammu region and Karnah and Uri sectors in north Kashmir's Kupwara and Baramulla districts.

Indian security forces guarding the border also retaliated, and the cross-border shelling between the two sides was going on when the last reports were received, officials said, adding the Pakistani shelling forced the people to take refuge in underground bunkers.

This was the 13th consecutive night of unprovoked firing along the borders in Jammu and Kashmir, amid heightened tensions following the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that left 26 people, mostly tourists, dead.

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Since the night of April 24, just hours after India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty following a terror attack in Pahalgam, Pakistani troops have been resorting to unprovoked firing at various places along the LoC in J&K, starting from the Kashmir Valley.