A villager showing remains of a mortar shell in Rajouri. PTI

Srinagar/ Rajouri: A day after three soldiers were killed in Machil sector, the Army on Wednesday launched a major fire assault along the Line of Control in Kashmir, causing “substantive damage” and disrupting Pakistani army’s movement in the Neelum Valley,  a 144-km bow-shaped thick forest area in occupied Kashmir.Defence sources claimed some Pakistani soldiers had been killed. On Tuesday, Pakistani commandos and irregulars had crossed the LoC, ambushed a counter-infiltration patrol of 57 Rashtriya Rifles near Shalabatu and killed three soldiers, beheading one of them. “We have punished Pakistan. All calibre weapons  were used.”Meanwhile, seven security personnel and three civilians were injured in cross-border shelling. Three men of Madras Regiment, Subedar Satwinder Singh, Naik Baldev and gunner Sarbjit Singh, manning the LoC in Kalal area of Nowshera, were injured. Also, two BSF jawans of 163 Battalion manning Bhimber Gali sector received minor injuries. In Kupwara, two civilians were injured. — TNS