India-Pakistan tensions escalate in Kashmir crisis as sides accuse each other of drone attacks – live

Pakistan says four soldiers wounded in Indian drone attack

India’s government has said it has been recovering debris from a number of locations after it accused Pakistan of launching an attack using drones and missiles.

“Pakistan attempted to engage a number of military targets … using drones and missiles,” India’s defence ministry said in a statement, adding that “these were neutralised” by air defence systems.

India fired attack drones into Pakistan on Thursday, with one wounding four soldiers, the Pakistani military claimed, a day after missiles struck several locations and killed more than two dozen people. Several drones were shot down, officials said

Hours after the first drone attacks, India’s defence ministry said it targeted air defence systems in several locations in Pakistan, but did not say whether it used drones

India alleged that Pakistan had attempted to launch drones and missiles at a number of military targets in its north and west, including in the major cities of Amritsar, Srinagar and Chandigarh. It said its air defence systems stopped all the attacks

Tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours have soared since gunmen killed 26 people, mostly Indian Hindu tourists, in the India-controlled part of Kashmir last month. India accused Pakistan of being behind the assault. Islamabad denies that

Indian strikes on Wednesday killed 31 civilians, including women and children, according to Pakistani officials

Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to avenge the deaths in the strikes, raising fears that the two countries could be headed toward another all-out conflict.