India has confirmed the loss of a Military aircraft in an air battle with Pakistani machines. The authorities in New Delhi, however, contradict the Version that the Pakistan spread about the incident.
At the Smoking wreckage of an Indian military helicopter in the vicinity of the majority of Shiite Muslims inhabited the city of Budgam in Kashmir has gathered a large amount of onlookers. Four people were apparently killed when the helicopter crashed. Whether he was shot down, is still unclear.
“First we have to clean up all of us tend to wounded,” said a policeman at the crash site. “After that, the experts of the air force will investigate all of this.”
helicopter crash site in Budgam, Kashmir. Four people were apparently killed. Whether the helicopter was shot down, is for the moment unclear.
Pakistan: “in fact, this was not vengeance”
The Pakistani authorities had previously announced to have two Indian fighter planes shot down the had penetrated into the Pakistani airspace. Via Twitter, the state radio broadcast a photo of a wounded and prisoners of the captured Indian soldiers.
Pakistan wool but no further escalation of the situation, said the spokesman of the Pakistani armed forces, Major-General Asif Ghafoor. “Actually, that was not a retaliation, but only a Demonstration of our determination and of our ability to defend ourselves,” he said. “We do not want war. If we wanted to, we would have fired on a target that we had set for ourselves first. But then, there would have been many Dead and major damage.”
India: “Our air force has responded”
in India, was today’s incident is completely different. Pakistani fighter planes had intruded into the Indian airspace and shot. A Pakistani plane was shot down, and an Indian crashed, said the spokesman of the Indian foreign Ministry Raveesh Kumar.
“The Pakistani aircraft were discovered, and our air force has responded. A Pakistani Jet from us was shot down,” said Kumar. The Indian soil have confirmed the troops that the machine went down on Pakistani soil. “Unfortunately, we have lost a MIG-21. The Pilot is unaccounted for. Pakistan claimed that he had been taken prisoner by them.”
