Tail: The death of a 12 -year -old twin children killed in a Pakistani strike in Kashmir in Kashmir, India helped unite a community in shock.
Zian Khan and his sister Urwa Fatima collided with a artillery shell on Wednesday as their parents tried to leave the city that came under repeated attacks.
The latest clashes are the worst in decades among the atomic-head enemies and more than 60 civilians have been killed on both sides.
The two sides confirmed a complete and immediate ceasefire on Saturday, which was stunned earlier by US President Donald Trump.
Urusa Khan, a 30 -year -old twins, survived the attack with minor wounds.
His 46 -year -old father, Rameez Khan, is in the hospital with dangerous injuries to life, is unaware that his children are no longer alive.
“None of us have experienced such direct targeting of our city or civic areas in our lifetime,” 40 -year -old Sarfaraz Mir, a cousin of dead twins told AFP.
“No one thought it could happen, but it seems that citizens and the city are being specially targeted,” he said. “People are really afraid now.”
At least 12 people have been killed and 49 others have been injured since the second largest city in the Indian-paste Kashmir, about 145 miles (230 km) from Jammu, in a Ponch.
Only a few thousand residents live in Poonach, which was home to about 60,000 people.
Most of the residents ran away on Wednesday evening on Wednesday evening, a few hours after the night started overnight.
‘We regret that decision’
As the twins tried to leave their homes on Wednesday, her mother briefly went inside to take something back which she had forgotten.
“At that moment, a shell exploded in a narrow lane outside his residence,” Mir said.
Urwa immediately died and his brother later in the hospital.
“People only later reached the father … and (that) is still in a serious position,” he said.
The family had gone from a village to Dead Twins School in Poonch.
“We regret that decision,” Fiaz Diwan, 30, a family friend and former neighbor of Chaktaru village told AFP.
Diwan said, “The news of his death was shocking, incredible.” “They can still be alive if the parents do not have the best education and a desire to give them the best.”
‘nerves of steel’
The death of twin children has disturbed united communities with damage and destruction in Poonch.
Mir said that many people “a child whose head was beheaded had forgotten a victim from the local Sikh minority – but twins.
Poonach “is a bouquet of communities – Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims – live together with joy, and it seems like an attempt to target,” he said.
A Sikh and a Hindu temple complex were damaged in shelling.
Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Friday increased the deaths of twins and accused Pakistan of “targeted places of worship with a special design”.
“It includes Gurudvaras (Sikh Temple), these guilty and (Hindu) temples. It is also a new low for Pakistan.”
The latest clashes followed an attack in the Indian-influenced side of the disputed Kashmir last month, killing 26 tourists, mostly Hindu men who were convicted by Delhi on Islamabad.
Pakistan has denied any participation and called for an independent investigation.
Pankaj Sharma, 48, a Hindu from Poonach, called the death of twin children “the whole life (was) still ahead of them.
Just after the funeral of the twins, his mother went to the hospital to live with her seriously injured husband.
“God has actually given the veins of steel calm and dignity to go through all this,” Mir said.
