Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Saturday, killing two civilians and wounding six others, officials said.
Indian army spokesman Lt. Col. Manish Mehta said Pakistani soldiers started shelling and firing at Indian military posts in the morning in the Nowshera sector along the highly militarized Line of Control that divides the region between India and Pakistan, ABC News reported.
He said that Indian troops returned fire and that the gunbattle was still ongoing Saturday afternoon.
Pakistan's army denied that it initiated the clash and instead blamed Indian soldiers for firing and shelling in at least seven sectors in violation of a 2003 cease-fire. It said three Pakistani civilians were wounded in the violence.
The nuclear-armed arch-rivals routinely accuse each other of initiating border clashes.
Source: MENA
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