Around 50 students of a government high school were trapped due to heavy mortar shelling by the Pakistan army in the Naushera sector in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, an official said.

Authorities, however, managed to rescue 12 children from a primary school.

The Pakistan army violated ceasefire in four sectors of Rajouri and Poonch districts this morning. ANI now reports that an Army jawan has been critically injured in Pakistani firing along the LOC in the Nowgam sector of Handwara.

"Forty-five to 50 students of the government high school in Sehar in Naushera sector are trapped due to heavy shelling," Deputy Commissioner (Rajouri) Shahid Iqbal Choudhary told PTI this morning.

He said the school is located at a height which had made the task of evacuation difficult.

However, police and other authorities evacuated 12 students from a primary school at Kadali in Naushera. The children were ferried from the school in bulletproof vehicles during the intermittent shelling by Pakistan, Choudhary said.

"We have sent three bullet proof vehicles to evacuate the students from high school at Sehar. Once the intensity of shelling lessens, we will rescue them too," Choudhary said.

Yesterday, a nine-year-old girl and and Army jawan were killed and three others were injured in Pak firing in the Rajouri-Poonch belt.  -- PTI


Image: The school van was sprayed with bullets, but luckily there was nobody inside. Pic: ANI