The residents of several villages in the Uri area near the Line of Control in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir have been moved to safer locations following unprovoked firing by the Pakistani troops there yesterday, police said today.

"In view of the unprovoked firing by the Pakistani troops in civilian areas of Churanda and Silikote, inhabitants of villages of Thajal and Soni have been moved to safer locations," a police official said.

He said the police assisted the civilians last night to move out of the villages which fall in the line of shelling by the Pakistani troops.

"This is a preventive measure taken to ensure that there are no civilian casualties," he added.

The Pakistani troops yesterday violated ceasefire along the LoC in the Uri sector, resulting in injuries to three civilians.

Earlier, a group of terrorists lobbed a grenade and opened fire at a water pump house of Indian Air Force (IAF) station in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir but there was no damage caused in the attack, an official said.

The firing was effectively retaliated by the alert sentries, forcing the terrorists to flee, he added.

"Two to three terrorists lobbed a grenade and opened firing on the water pump house located outside the Air Force Station at Malangpora in Awantipora area of Pulwama district," a defence spokesman said here.

There was no loss of life in the incident, the spokesman said adding security forces have cordoned off the area to track down the terrorists.