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Indian firing kills 2, hurts 5 in Kashmir
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Indian firing kills 2, hurts 5 in Kashmir
Two Pakistanis, one an 11-year-old boy, have been killed and five wounded by Indian mortar and machinegun fire across a ceasefire line in disputed Kashmir in the past 24 hours, Pakistani police said yesterday.
The casualties occurred in different villages along the de facto border dividing Kashmir between Pakistan and India, senior police official Ghulam Sarwar told Reuters in Muzaffarabad, capital of the Pakistani side of the Himalayan territory.
Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars since 1947 over Kashmir and nearly went to war again over the region last year.
A 14-year insurgency in Indian-held Kashmir, blamed by India on Pakistan-based Muslim militants, has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
The 11-year-old boy died in hospital on Wednesday after being hit by shrapnel from an Indian mortar bomb in the border town of Chakothi, an hour?s drive from Muzaffarabad.
More than 300 people were killed in September
Sarwar said the firing started in Chakothi early yesterday and was continuing. A man was killed and another wounded late on Tuesday in Kotli district.
A mother and two daughters were among the four people wounded in Janjot village in intense firing that started on Tuesday evening and continued well into the night, Sarwar said.
Pakistani and Indian troops frequently exchange artillery and gun fire across the ceasefire line, known as the Line of Control, in Kashmir.
The level of violence in Indian Kashmir has spiralled recently, with more than 300 people killed in September, undermining tentative peace steps between the nuclear-armed rivals.
India says the rebels fighting its forces in its part of Kashmir slip in across the Line of Control from the Pakistani side. Pakistan denies direct support for the rebels.
About 45 percent of the territory is controlled by India, while Pakistan holds just over a third and China the remainder.
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