MUZAFFARABAD:
A mosque in Muzaffrabad collapsed halfway when the daylight broke on Wednesday, his old career killed in an Indian strike in the dark.
It was one of the six sites hit by New Delhi. “There were terrible sounds at night, there was panic among the people,” said Muhammed Salman, who lives next to the bilapse mosque destroyed in Muzzaffrabad.
Several houses were damaged in the attack and the neighboring school closed on Wednesday, like all the others throughout the region and in Punjab, after it was also beaten.
“The children are very scared. We could not leave our place during the night, but now we moved to our relatives’ house,” said Mother Jamila Bibi, 52.
The United Nations military observers arrived at the site to inspect it on Wednesday. “We are moving to a safer place … now we are homeless,” said Tariq Mir, 24, who lives near the bilant mosque and was beaten by the shrapnel.
The 70 -year -old mosque caregiver was buried on Wednesday at a funeral attended by more than 600 people, an AFP journalist witnessed.
In Bahawalpur, Ali Muhammed was also awake. “We were sleeping when we listened to an explosion,” he said, standing among dozens of spectators, most still in their scooters, watching the damage to the subhan mosque that was also beaten.
Repeat rhetoric transmitted daily on television, radio and social networks by the military, Ali Muhammed said: “We know how to answer … We are not weak.” “We are a nuclear energy.”
Meanwhile, Muzampharabad residents said they fled from their homes and met the surrounding hills when India launched early air attacks on Wednesday in a part of the city.
The mosque speakers told people who were looking for refuge while the ground was shook repeatedly and the sounds of the explosions reverge, they said. “We left outside,” said Muhammad Shair Mir, 46, describing the events of the night. “Then another explosion happened. The whole house moved. Everyone was scared, we all evacuated, we took our children and climb (the hill).”
Many people gathered after dawn near a mosque that had been beaten in the strikes, their roof broke and the minaret collapsed. The security forces had cordoned off the area. The district commissioner, a high local official, said three people were killed near the collapsed mosque.
District officials said that in the control line, the mortar and the fire of light weapons between the two armies continued until the morning and had killed at least six civilians on the Pakistani side.
In Muzaffad, the hospitals were operational and some small businesses opened in the morning, but the schools were closed and the exams were canceled, according to local authorities.
Shair Mir said he and his family spent four hours outdoors. Some of their neighbors had gone to the hospital with wounds and the rest were shaken, he said. “This is wrong … innocent poor people, our poor mothers are sick, our sisters are sick … Our houses were shaken, our walls have broken,” he said.
