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- Indian and Pakistani soldiers again targeted each other's posts and villages along their volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing at least four civilians and wounding four others, officials said Saturday.
- Fighting resumed overnight as the rivals traded gunfire and shelling until dawn Saturday, leaving two siblings and their mother dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
- The three died overnight after a shell fired by Pakistani soldiers hit their home in Poonch region near the so-called Line of Control that divides the Himalayan territory of Kashmir between the two nuclear-armed rivals, police said.
- In Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, government official Umar Azam said Indian troops with heavy weapons "indiscriminately targeted border villagers" along the Line of Control, killing a boy and wounding three others.
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian and Pakistani soldiers again targeted each other's posts and villages along their volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing at least four civilians and wounding four others, officials said Saturday.
Fighting resumed overnight as the rivals traded gunfire and shelling until dawn Saturday, leaving two siblings and their mother dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The three died overnight after a shell fired by Pakistani soldiers hit their home in Poonch region near the so-called Line of Control that divides the Himalayan territory of Kashmir between the two nuclear-armed rivals, police said. The children's father was critically wounded and has been hospitalized.
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