SRINAGAR, India: At least 10 people were killed by artillery fire Sunday along the de facto India-Pakistan border in Kashmir, officials said, as both countries accuse each other of trying to destabilise the disputed region. India’s army chief General Bipin Rawat told reporters in New Delhi that infiltration across the border has occurred repeatedly since Aug 5. Two soldiers and a civilian were killed and three others injured in “unprovoked fire by Pakistan” in the mountainous Kupwara district, a spokesman for the army told AFP earlier Sunday. There has been a jump in deaths in recent days with five people killed in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, two days after New Delhi restored mobile phone and text services. Kashmir has been split between India and Pakistan since 1947 and was the spark of two wars and numerous skirmishes.

Source: New Strait Times October 20, 2019 20:48 UTC