Glasgow, Oct. 30 -- Human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza has condemned the reported killing of five members of a family, including three children, in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), and urged the United Nations, the Government of India and the international community to intervene amid allegations of escalating violence against civilians.

In a press statement issued from Glasgow, Scotland, on October 30, Mirza, Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Tehreek-e-Ittifaq-e-Rai, said that a reported grenade or rocket attack on a civilian residence had killed three children, their mother and their grandmother.

The victims were identified in his statement as Harris, 12, Malaika, 8, Anika, 15, their mother Shazia and their grandmother Naseba. A...