A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was wounded in firing by Pakistani soldiers in Kanachak sector of Jammu district on the international border, officials said Sunday.
Pawan Kumar, in his early 20s, was shot in his chest. He was deployed on an observation tower 200 metres from the border.
The attack occurred at 7:40 a.m. Sunday. BSF personnel fired at Pakistani soldiers in retaliation.
A BSF officer said Kumar was taken to a government hospital in Jammu where his condition was critical. He will be shifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi shortly.
The incident, coming less than a week after the killing of five Indian Army soldiers in an ambush at the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, is the third violation of the ceasefire agreement by Pakistan in the last 48 hours.
