Twenty-two Indian civilians, including five children, lost their lives in Jammu and Kashmir in four days of the between India and Pakistan, said police and district officials.
Five members of Indian armed forces were also killed in action between Wednesday and Saturday.
India and Pakistan reached an agreement to put an end to the skirmishes that escalated on May 7 with the strikes – codenamed – on what it claimed were terrorist camps in response to the .
The Pakistan Army had to the strikes by repeatedly shelling Indian villages along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
The highest number of casualties was reported from the Jammu region of the Union Territory. Fifteen persons died in Poonch district, which came under heavy artillery firing from the Pakistan Army.
Among the dead were Zain Ali and his sister Urwa Fatima. The 14-year-old twins, both students of Class 5, were killed on May 7 when an artillery shell landed outside their home in Poonch town, just as the family was leaving for a safer area. The children’s father Rameez Khan was injured in the shelling.
A seven-year-old girl, Maryam Khatoon, was also killed by a shell that day when she was sitting in the compound of her house in Poonch town.
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