Today's incident in which there was no loss of life or injury to anyone in the firing is the third ceasefire violation in the past four days and the fifth in 19 days. All but one of the five ceasefire violations occurred in the Poonch sector.u00a0

The Pakistani troops opened small arms firing on Indian positions in the Nangi Tikri forward area along the LoC in Krishnagati sub-sector of Poonch district at around 1310 hours today, Defence PRO S N Acharya said. The firing continued intermittently for over an hour, he said.