Lance Naik Antony Sebastian KM was critically injured and succumbed to gunshot injuries. Another jawan Havildar Mari Muthu D was critically injured in the firing. Immediate resuscitation and medical aid was provided to Muthu D and he was sent to Military Hospital in Poonch. Lance Naik Antony Sebastian KM, 34, hailed from Kerala's Manakunnam village and is survived by his wife. "The Indian Army has retaliated strongly and effectively on Pakistan Army posts. The martyrdom of the Indian Army soldier will not go in vain," the spokesperson said.
Two Army personnel fell to sniping in Sunderbani and Noushera sectors of Rajouri district on Saturday and Sunday.
On Sunday, Naik Gosavi Keshav Somgir, 29, was killed in unprovoked ceasefire violation in Noushera sector. Somgir belonged to Sri Rampur village of Nashik district in Maharashtra. On Saturday Rifleman Varun Kattal, 21, a resident of Mawa-Rajpura area of Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, was killed in Sunderbani sector.
The officials said Indian troops guarding the border retaliated strongly and effectively following the latest ceasefire violation. The casualties suffered by Pakistani troops were not known immediately but several of their posts were hit in the retaliatory action, the officials said.
On October 21, three soldiers of Jammu and Kashmir light infantry regiment and two heavily-armed infiltrators, believed to be members of the Border Action Team (BAT) of the Pakistan army, and terrorists, were killed in Sunderbani sector. On November 6, a soldier was injured when he was hit by a sniper from across the border at Kalal in Noushera sector of Rajouri, while a BSF jawan was injured in a separate incident of firing by Pakistan along the LoC in the Manjakote area of the Rajouri-Poonch sector Friday.