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The firing got here sooner or later after 4 individuals have been killed in an hours-long gunbattle with militants attacking a paramilitary camp in Indian Kashmir.
Two civilians have been killed and two others have been wounded after Indian troops fired into Pakistani Kashmir Wednesday, within the newest cross-border violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
The incident occurred in a village in Abbaspur sector on the Line of Management, the de facto border dividing Kashmir between Pakistan and India.
“A brother and a sister have been killed and two different ladies have been wounded in firing by Indian troops,” native authorities official Qaiser Aurangzeb informed AFP.
The firing got here sooner or later after 4 individuals have been killed in an hours-long gunbattle with militants attacking a paramilitary camp in Indian Kashmir.
All three militants have been killed, Indian police informed AFP, blaming the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed Islamist group for the assault.
Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan because the finish of British colonial rule in 1947 however each declare the territory in full.
For many years insurgent teams have fought Indian troopers deployed within the territory, demanding independence or a merger of the previous Himalayan kingdom with Pakistan.
The rival armies routinely goal one another throughout the closely militarised Line of Management that divides the territory, and Aurangzeb stated that intermittent “unprovoked firing” by Indian troops within the space was persevering with.
One other native authorities official, Tahir Mumtaz, confirmed the firing and casualties.
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