Worst attacks in Kashmir in decades

India — Madasar Choudhary said his sister saw two children killed in the town of Poonch that bore the brunt of this week's shelling by Pakistan, with India saying a total of 13 people died there.

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"She saw two children running out of her neighbour's house and screamed for them to get back inside," Choudhary, 29, from the town in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir that was bombarded on Wednesday, said.

"But shrapnel hit the children — and they eventually died," Choudhary said.

The deadly artillery barrage killed a total of 16 people and injured dozens more hours after India launched strikes on Pakistan.

This was in response to an attack in the disputed Kashmir region on 22 April that killed 26 people and which New Delhi blamed on Islamabad — a charge it rejects.

Islamabad said that the Indian strikes and firing along the border has killed 31 civilians.