Trade fire in Kashmir: 2 civilians dead

Jammu May 14: Indian and Pakistani troops has been fired in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir here on Saturday.

While going to matter during the fire two civilians killed and wounding six others, according to the official's reports.

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 said by Indian army spokesman Lt. Col. Manish Mehta



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 Pakistan civilians were wounded in the violence.

The nuclear-armed archrivals routinely accuse each other of initiating border clashes.