“He called the family and told them that he was waiting outside. As the family of four left the main gate of their house and took a few steps towards the road, at least three shells landed in the area. Two of the shells hit my house, damaging it, and another hit a nearby house,” said their neighbour, Mehtab Din Sheikh.He said that while his family escaped with injuries as they had shifted to the ground floor after the shelling began, their neighbours were caught in the open.The twins Urba and Zain, along with their father Rameez, sustained critical injuries.Altaf said the uncle who had come to pick them up rushed to the scene and, with the help of locals, shifted the injured children and their father to a nearby hospital in his vehicle.He said the children died within minutes of each other.“Their father, who works in the Education Department, sustained critical injuries and is admitted in Government Medical College Hospital, Jammu,” Altaf said.While Rameez was undergoing treatment in the hospital, Urba and Zain were buried side by side in their ancestral graveyard in the Mandi area of Poonch.
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