in the Midst of new tensions between India and Pakistan, are killed in gun battles in the border area of Kashmir, at least four civilians and eleven more have been injured. In the Indian part of the region of conflict, a 24-year-old woman and her two children were also killed, said a spokesman for the Indian police on Saturday. The father was badly injured. By Pakistani shelling, there had been also seven more injured on the Indian side, it said in media reports.
In the Pakistani part of Kashmir had killed a Boy and three other people, according to Pakistani security forces. The armies of the feuding neighbors were shot since Friday, always at different Places across the De facto border between the two countries controlled Parts of Kashmir.
The tensions between the two nuclear powers had intensified in the past few days. After India’s air force had flown in on Tuesday night for the first Time since 1971, an attack on Pakistani territory and shot down Pakistan according to its own data on Wednesday, two Indian fighter planes. An Indian Pilot prisoner had been taken, was released on Friday and the Indian authorities at a border crossing pass.
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Since the independence of the former British India and its separation in India and Pakistan in 1947, both countries claim Kashmir for itself – you each control a part of. The present nuclear powers have already led to two wars on the Himalayan valley. (dpa)
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