Indian Army soldier killed in Pakistani shelling after Operation Sindoor

The Indian Army said that a soldier was killed on Wednesday in shelling by the Pakistani military along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district following Operation Sindoor.

The civilian toll in the firing and shelling by the Pakistan Army on villages in four districts close to the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir increased to 12, The Hindu reported. This included three women and three children.

Fifty-one civilians were injured.

The shelling came after the Indian military earlier on Wednesday carried out strikes on what it claimed were terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under Operation Sindoor in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. Nine sites were targeted.