NEW DELHI: India’s government said on Thursday (May 8) that Pakistan launched an overnight air attack using “drones and missiles”, before New Delhi retaliated to destroy an air defence system in Lahore.
“Pakistan attempted to engage a number of military targets … using drones and missiles,” India’s defence ministry said in a statement, adding that “these were neutralised” by air defence systems.
New Delhi said that areas targeted included sites in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, and India’s Punjab state – including the key cities of Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh – as well as Bhuj in Gujarat state.
“The debris of these attacks is now being recovered from a number of locations,” it added.
The defence ministry said that on Thursday morning, its military had “targeted air defence radars and systems at a number of locations in Pakistan”, saying that the “response has been in the same domain, with the same intensity, as Pakistan”.
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It added that it had been “reliably learnt that an air defence system at Lahore has been neutralised”.
India accused Pakistan of having “increased the intensity of its unprovoked firing across the Line of Control using mortars and heavy calibre artillery” across the de facto border in Jammu and Kashmir
India added that it remained committed to “non-escalation, provided it is respected by the Pakistani military”.
At least 47 deaths have been reported so far from both sides of the border following Wednesday’s violence, including children.
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