The Indian armed forces launched “Operation Sindoor,” hitting nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian government said in a statement on Wednesday.
No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted, the statement added.
Pakistani security officials said the missiles were fired into Pakistani-controlled territory in at least three locations, killing at a child and wounding two other people.
Indian armed forces launched Operation Sindoor targeting Pakistan, the government said.Credit: Bloomberg
India said it was striking infrastructure used by militants.
Multiple loud explosions were heard in the mountains around the city of Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday, as well as in two other places in the region, Reuters witnesses and a Pakistani TV channel reported.
After the explosions, Muzaffarabad’s power was blacked out, the witnesses said. It was not immediately clear what the explosions were.
The missiles early struck locations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in the country’s eastern Punjab province, according to three Pakistani security officials.
One of them struck a mosque in the city of Bahawalpur in Punjab, where a child was killed, and a woman and man were injured, one official said.
The officials said Pakistan had launched retaliatory strikes, without providing any details. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media on the record.
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