Jammu, India: explosions sounded through the Indian city of Jammu late Thursday, May 8 during what the government said A Pakistani drone and a missile attack On the military stations around the Kashmir region on the second day of clashes between nuclear neighbors.
The sirens resounded and red indicators and projectiles broke out in the night sky over Jammu for about 2-1/2 hours, said a journalist from Reuters, in what seemed to be an escalation in the worst confrontation of countries in more than two decades.
Two days of fighting killed nearly four dozen people.
“The military stations of Jammu, Pathankot and Udhampur were targeted by drones and missiles of Pakistani origin along the international border of J&K today,” said the Ministry of Defense in India on X, citing places in and near the federal territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The threats were quickly neutralized … No victim or material losses was reported.”
Indian television channels have also shown light rockets and lightning in the sky above the city of Jaisalmer in the state of Rajasthan, which shares a border with the South Pakistani province of Sindh.
In a press release, Islamabad denied having attacked Pathankot in the state of Punjab in India, Srinagar in the Kashmir valley and Jaisalmer and said that the accusations were “completely unfounded, with political motivation and part of an imprudent propaganda campaign aimed at Malin Pakistan”.
The Ministry of Pakistan Foreign Affairs said that the country would respond to any climbing “with a complete resolution and a determination to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan”.
Electricity in Jammu was slowly restored after a power outage during the attack, said a journalist from Reuters.
Eight missiles, taken from Pakistan in the cities of the Jammu region of Satwari, Samba, Ranbir Singh Pura and Arnia, were intercepted by the air defense units, added an Indian military source which asked not to be appointed.
They were part of a wider attack, added the source.
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said earlier than new reprisals were “more and more some” after the two countries accused themselves of launching drone attacks.
