Indian shelling across the frontier into Pakistani-controlled Kashmir has hit a bus and killed at least nine people, Pakistani officials say, as tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours simmers.
Indian troops attacked the bus "with small and big arms" in the town of Lawat, which also wounded 11 people, senior police official Jamil Mir told Reuters on Wednesday.
Waheed Khan, a local official, says an artillery shell hit the bus in the Neelum Valley on Wednesday, killing nine people.
Police official Waseem Khan says another two died when a mortar shell hit their house in the Nakyal sector of the Pakistani-held part of Kashmir.
Lawat is 100km northeast of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-held Kashmir, in the upper belt of Neelum Valley that straddles the de facto border splitting Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
Indian officials did not comment on the deaths but a military spokesman said the Pakistani Army initiated "indiscriminate" firing on Wednesday morning on Indian Army posts in Bhimber Gali, Krishna Ghati and Nawshera sectors.
Relations between Pakistan and India have been strained for several months, while cross-frontier shelling has intensified leading to deaths of civilians and soldiers stationed along the disputed frontier.
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