https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/03/02/589999/India-Pakistan-fresh-fighting-Kashmir-casualties

A fresh round of fighting between Indian and Pakistani military forces along the border on the disputed Kashmir region has left eight people, mostly civilians, killed.

The flare-up that began late on Friday and continued into early hours of Saturday came as the two nuclear-armed neighbors have been locked in one of their most serious confrontations over decades.

Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in a first round of fire from the Indian side of the Line of Control (LoC) which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan, according to Pakistani military officials.

Pakistani authorities said a boy was killed and three were wounded in a village near the LoC in heavy Indian shelling that also destroyed several homes.

On the other side of the border, two siblings and their mother were killed after a shell fired by Pakistani soldiers hit their home in the Poonch region, according to authorities in the Indian-controlled Kashmir who said the father of the family had also been critically injured in the attack.

Pakistani military said in a statement early on Saturday that two civilians were killed and two others were wounded after Indian forces resumed shelling and firing of small arms after a lull that had lasted a few hours.