Pakistan targets Jammu with loitering munitions, airport and vital installations targeted
Sources also confirmed gunshots were heard in the Satwari and Gandhi Nagar areas. No casualties have been reported so far, sources said.
Sources told ThePrint that Jammu airport was also targeted and at least six blasts were reported from across the city. It is not clear at this time if these were actual hits by Pakistan or interception by Indian air defence systems.
New Delhi: Pakistan Thursday carried out an aerial attack on Jammu city with at least four loitering munitions. Multiple explosions were reported from parts of the city.
It is also learnt that heavy firing is also on in the Samba area.
This comes on the day India thwarted attempts by Pakistan to target Indian military installations spread across the western and northern sectors including in Srinagar, Jammu, Amritsar and Pathankot through its own air defence systems on the night of 7-8 May.
Pakistan had attempted to engage a number of military targets in northern and western India including Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai, and Bhuj, using drones and missiles.
These were neutralised by the Integrated Counter UAS Grid and Air Defence systems. The debris of these attacks is now being recovered from a number of locations that prove the Pakistani attacks,' a defence ministry statement had said.
This is a developing story
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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