Pakistan and India traded fire in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, leaving seven people dead -- some of the highest fatalities since tensions flared between the rival nuclear-armed nations after a suicide bombing killed 40 Indian troops in Indian-administered Kashmir in February.
Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard during a security lockdown in downtown Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, March 1, 2019. ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan and India traded fire in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, leaving seven people dead -- three Pakistani soldiers, a Pakistani villager, an Indian woman and a girl and a member of the Indian paramilitary troops, officials said Tuesday.
Pakistan's military said Indian troops targeted its military positions overnight in the border town of Rakhchakri in Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir. Along with the three soldiers killed, a fourth was wounded, the army said. The statement added that Pakistani soldiers "responded effectively." In India, the army accused Pakistani troops of firing mortars and small-arms fire Monday along the disputed frontier, the highly militarized so-called Line of Control, hitting the sector of Poonch in Indian-controlled Kashmir. It said Indian soldiers retaliated.
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