"Life Should Be Big Instead Of Being Long" Reads FB Description Of Young Indian Army Captain Killed In Pak Shelling
Captain Kapil Kundu was among four soldiers killed in cross-border shelling by Pakistani troops in Rajouri district of Jammu region on Sunday evening. The 22-year-old from Gurugram was six days short of his 23rd birthday a senior Army official said.
"Life Should Be Big Instead Of Being Long," reads the Facebook description of Captain Kapil Kundu. And he lived true to the word...
The 22-year-old from Gurugram was among four soldiers killed in cross-border shelling by Pakistani troops in Rajouri district of Jammu region on Sunday evening. Captain Kapil Kundu was the second Army officer to have died in Pakistani fire in the last 40 days.
Captain Kapil Kundu was six days short of his 23rd birthday, a senior Army official said.
Apart from Kundu, others who died were identified as riflemen Ram Avtar and Shubam Singh, and havaldar Roshan Lal. Another soldier, Niak Iqbal Ahmed, is being treated for his injuries in hospital.
Earlier in the day, two teenagers and a jawan were injured in the Shahpur sector of Poonch district in shelling from across the border.
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Rajouri deputy commissioner Shahid Iqbal Choudary ordered closure of all 84 schools close to the border, from Sunderbani to Manjakote, for the next three days. Deputy chief minister Nirmal Singh said the administration had already evacuated people to safety. "There is heavy firing and shelling going on along the LoC in my Nowshera assembly constituency," he said.
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Official sources said the Pakistani army opened unprovoked fire on the Army's 15 J&K Light Infantry posts in the Bhimber Gali sector on Sunday. "The Indian Army retaliated strongly and effectively, and heavy damage has been inflicted on Pakistani posts," an Army spokesperson said, vowing "a befitting response".
