The Indian city mourns the loss of young twins who were killed in the Pakistani fire

The death of 12-year-old twins who were killed in a Pakistani strike when they fled from the city of Poonch in Kashmir from India, contributed to combining a community in shock.

Zian Khan and his sister Urwa Fatima were hit by an artillery cover on Wednesday when their parents tried to leave the city that was repeatedly attacked.

The recent clashes have been the worst of the worst between nuclear enemies and have killed more than 60 civilians on both sides.

The mother of the twins, Urusa Khan, 30, survived the attack with small wounds.

Her 46-year-old father, Rameez Khan, is with life-threatening injuries in the hospital without knowing that his children are no longer alive.

“None of us have ever experienced such a direct goal for our city or our civilian areas in our lives,” Sarfaraz told me, 40, cousin of the dead twins, to AFP.

“Nobody thought it could happen, but it feels like civilians and the city were targeted,” he said. “People are really afraid now.”

At least 12 people were killed and 49 others were injured since the fire in Poonch has increased, about 145 miles (230 kilometers) of Jammu, the second largest city in the Kashmir administered in Indian.

Only a few thousand residents stay in Poonch, where around 60,000 people were native.

Most residents fled on Wednesday evening in cars, buses and even on foot, hours after the unprecedented shot overnight.

-We regret this decision.

When the twins' family hurriedly tried to leave their home on Wednesday, her mother went in briefly to pick up something she had forgotten.

“At that time, a cover exploded in the narrow trace in front of her residence,” said me.

Urwa died immediately and her brother in the hospital later.

“People came to the father later … And (he) is still in a critical condition,” he added.

The family had moved from a village to Poonch to be near the dead twin school.

“We regret this decision,” Fiaz Diwan, 30, a friend and former neighbor in the village of Chaktro, told AFP.

“The news of her death was shocking and unbelievable,” said Diwan. “You may have been alive if the parents' wish not to give them the best training and future.”

-'Nnerves of steel'-

The death of the twins combined the different communities with loss and destruction in Poonch.

I said that many would have suffered, including a child whose head was cut off, a victim of the local Sikh minority -but twins are difficult to forget “.

Poonch “is a bouquet of communities – Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims – happily together, and it feels like an attempt to aim,” he said.

A SIKH and a Hindu temple complex were damaged at the fire.

The Indian Secretary of Foreign Minister Vikram Misri raised the twins' deaths on Friday and accused Pakistan of “making worship with a certain design”.

“This includes Gurdwaras (Sikh Temple), these monasteries and (Hindu) temples. This is a new low even for Pakistan.”

The recent clashes followed an attack last month on the side of the controversial cashmere administered by India, in which 26 tourists, mainly Hindu men, were killed, who blamed Delhi Islamabad.

Pakistan denied any participation and demanded an independent probe

Pankaj Sharma, 48, a Hindu from Poonch, complained about the twins and said that their “whole life was still).

Immediately after the twins' funeral, her mother went to the hospital to be with her seriously wounded husband.

“God really gave her nerves of steel to go through all of this with calm and dignity,” said me.

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