Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high-level security meeting on Saturday at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg with defence minister Rajnath Singh, national security advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, the chief of defence staff, and the heads of the Army, Navy, and Air Force amid rising tensions with Pakistan.
The meeting followed a heavy shelling by Pakistani forces in Rajouri earlier in the day, which killed additional district development commissioner Raj Kumar Thapa and caused civilian casualties and destruction.
Another person, identified as Zakir Hussain, was killed and his family members injured when a shell fell on their house at Kheri in Raipur area on the outskirts of Jammu city. Ashok Kumar of Kheri Jattan and three of his relatives were also injured in the shelling as they were moving to a safer location.
With this, the death toll in Pakistani shelling, drone and missile attacks in the Jammu region went up to five, including two Bihar residents in Rajouri town, and a woman in Mendhar area of Poonch.
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