- Kashmir: At Least Eight Killed as Pakistan and India Resume Hostilities
by Associated Press in Srinagar, https://www.theguardian.com/international
At least six civilians and two Pakistani troops killed as clashes along frontier continue
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Indian and Pakistani soldiers have targeted each other’s posts and villages along the volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing at least six civilians and two Pakistani troops, officials said.
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Tensions have been running high since Indian aircraft crossed into Pakistan on Tuesday, carrying out what India called a pre-emptive strike against militants blamed for a 14 February suicide bombing that killed 40 Indian troops. Pakistan retaliated, shooting down a fighter jet on Wednesday and detaining its pilot, who was returned to India on Friday in what Islamabad described as a peace gesture.
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Fighting resumed, however, overnight on Friday. Pakistan’s military said two of its soldiers had been killed in an exchange of fire with Indian forces near the line of control that divides Kashmir between the rivals. They were the first Pakistani fatalities since Wednesday, when tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours over Kashmir escalated dramatically. Control over Kashmir is split between them but both claim it in its entirety.
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Indian police said a mother and two children were killed when a Pakistani shell hit their home in the Poonch region near the line of control. The children’s father was critically wounded.
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Umar Azam, a Pakistani government official, said Indian troops had “indiscriminately targeted border villagers” using heavy weaponry along the line of control, killing a boy and wounding three other people. Several homes were also destroyed, he said..
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