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| Indian, Pakistani forces suffer heavy casualties after clashes in Kashmir region | |
| 2019-03-03 | |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] At least two Pak soldiers were killed this morning when the Indian Army unleashed a barrage of artillery shells towards the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmire region. According to the Pak Ministry of Defense, two of their soldiers were killed after the Indian military fired artillery shells towards the Naykal Sector. This latest attack by the Indian Army comes just hours after the Pak military released a captured IAF pilot that was shot down over the Kashmire region on Wednesday. Following the Indian Army’s attack on the Naykal Sector, the Pak military unleashed a barrage of their own. According to a source from the Pak armed forces, their attack resulted in the death of eight Indian soldiers and the hospitalization of 32 paramilitary troops. With the rise of violence in the disputed Kashmire region, both the Indian and Pak armed forces have been placed on high alert in case a new conflict were to breakout.
The pilot's grandfather was also in the Indian Air Force and his wife is a former helicopter pilot, Indian media reported. India, Pakistan border festivities continue after pilot's release [Aljazeera] Indian and Pakistani soldiers again targeted each other's posts and villages along their volatile frontier in the disputed region of Kashmir, killing at least five civilians and two soldiers, and wounding several others, officials on both sides said. The nuclear-armed rivals fired mortars and artillery at each other despite the release of an Indian pilot who was shot down by Pakistan, but then sent back as a "peace gesture". Kashmiris living near disputed border fear for safety (2:02) Fighting resumed overnight into dawn on Saturday, leaving two siblings and their mother dead in Indian-administered Kashmir. The three died after a shell fired by Pakistani soldiers hit their home in Poonch region near the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the Himalayan territory of Kashmir between the two nuclear-armed rivals, police said. "At 6pm, Pakistan started shelling, which went on for three hours. One of the shells hit by Pakistan hit the house, in which three members of a family were killed, including two innocent children," Poonch resident Mohammad Saleem told Al Jazeera. The children's father was critically wounded and has been admitted to hospital. Reporting from New Delhi, Al Jazeera's Sohail Rahman said residents in Uri, 50km from Poonch, were moved to safer areas due to the heavy shelling from Pakistan along the LoC. | |
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