Provincial President of National Conference Devender Singh Rana on Saturday dubbed the situation at Line of Control as "tensed, challenging and unfortunate" and added that the civil authorities and the Army have to rise to the occasion.
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"The situation on the Line of Control is very tensed. About a week back, I had gone along with Dr. Farooq Abdullah to the Line of Control and zero line. Situation is very bad. People are under distress," Rana told ANI.
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"Civil administration has failed to reach out to them and today's unfortunate incident has happened. The firing is going on. It is really a challenging situation. The civil authorities have also to rise to the occasion and so has the army to rise to the occasion," he added.
Five civilians were killed and around 10 were injured after the Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire along the border in Jammu and Kashmir's Balakot region on Saturday.
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Earlier in the afternoon, more than four civilians reported injured after the Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire.
"Fresh firing began around 3 pm and some civilians got injured, they were immediately saved by people around at the time. Then another shell fell in the village which brought on the casualties. Three people died on the spot and one died on the way to the hospital and three were critically injured," Pawan Kotwal, Divisional Commissioner of Jammu said to the media.
The condition of three civilians, who were critical after the shelling, was reported to be stable and they have been admitted to the government hospital in Jammu.
The firing was reported to have stopped after 7 pm.
