'Our house burnt down but luckily we survived': Indian witnesses recount
One patient, Manzoor, 18, had a splinter go through his arm while he was sleeping on the first floor of his home in Uri - a town located near the de-facto border between the two countries
The conflict that has flared up between India and Pakistan, the two neighbouring countries both equipped with nuclear arsenal, has already started to affect the ordinary citizens of the two countries, as witness accounts tell.
Visiting a hospital at Baramulla in Indian-administered Kashmir, BBC found four people seeking treatment there after getting injured in cross-shelling between Indian and Pakistani forces this morning (7 May), BBC reported.
One patient, Manzoor, 18, had a splinter go through his arm while he was sleeping on the first floor of his home in Uri - a town located near the de-facto border between the two countries.
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Doctors said they will need to perform surgery to remove the splinter.
Some other victims of the conflict, Badardin Naik and two of his family members, are also receiving treatment in the same hospital.
All of them were injured when an artillery shell hit their home in Salamabad in the early hours of today.
Naik and his eight-year-old son sustained head injuries, while his sister-in-law has a clot in her chest. She is in surgery.
"Our house burnt down, but luckily we survived," Naik says.
Meanwhile, residents of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, said they fled their homes and ran into surrounding hills as India launched air attacks on part of the city.
"The whole house moved. Everyone got scared, we all evacuated, took our kids and went up [the hills]," Muhammad Shair Mir, 46, told Reuters.
He added that his family spent four hours in the open. Some of his neighbours had gone to hospital with injuries and the remainder were shaken.
Many people gathered after sunrise near a mosque that had been hit in the attacks, its roof smashed and minaret toppled, the news agency reported. Security forces had cordoned off the area.
"This is wrong … Poor innocent people, our poor mothers are sick, our sisters are sick … our houses were rattled, our walls have cracked," the resident said.
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir said at least 10 people were killed and nearly 50 wounded there.
