Muzaffarabad:
A mosque in Muzaffarabad was held half a collapsed while daylight broke out on Wednesday, his elderly goalkeeper killed in an India strike in the dark.
It was one of the six sites struck by New Delhi. “There were terrible sounds at night, there was panic among people,” said Muhammed Salman, who lives next to the Bilale mosque destroyed in Muzzaffarabad.
Several houses were damaged during the attack and the neighboring school was closed on Wednesday, like all the others in the region and in Punjab, after being also affected.
“The children are very afraid. We could not leave our place during the night, but now we are moving to the house of our loved ones,” said 52 -year -old mother Jamila Bibi.
The United Nations military observers arrived on the site to inspect it on Wednesday. “We are moving to a safer place … We are homeless now,” said Tariq Mir, 24, who lives near the Bilale mosque and was struck by bursts of bus.
The 70 -year -old goalkeeper of the mosque was buried on Wednesday in funerals at which more than 600 people attended, witnessed an AFP journalist.
In Bahawalpur, Ali Muhammed was also awake. “We slept when we heard an explosion,” he said, standing among dozens of spectators, most of them always on their scooters, observing the damage to the Subhan mosque which was also struck.
Repeat the rhetoric broadcast daily on television, radio and social media by the military, Ali Muhammed said: “We know how to answer … We are not weak.” “We are a nuclear power.”
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of Muzaffarabad declared that they had fled their houses and rushed into the surrounding hills while India launched the air strikes early Wednesday in a part of the city.
The mosque speakers told people to look for shelter while the ground was on several occasions and the sounds of the explosions have repercussions, they said. “We came out,” said Muhammad Shair Mir, 46, describing the events of the night. “Then another explosion occurred. The whole house moved. Everyone was afraid, we all evacuated, taken our children and rose (the hill).”
Many people gathered after sunrise near a mosque that had been touched in the strikes, its broken roof and minaret overturned. The security forces had completed the area. The district commissioner, a senior local official, said that three people had been killed near the collapsed mosque.
District officials said that in the control line, the mortar and light fire between the two armies continued in the morning and had killed at least six civilians on the Pakistani side.
In Muzaffarbad, hospitals were operational and some small businesses opened in the morning, but the schools were closed and the exams canceled, according to local authorities.
Shair Mir said he and his family had spent four hours in the open air. Some of his neighbors had gone to the hospital with injuries and the others were shaken, he said. “It’s false … Poor innocent, our poor mothers are sick, our sisters are sick. Our houses were shaken, our walls have cracked,” he said.
