Drone assaults on Srinagar airport and Awantipora air base had been thwarted late on Friday, whereas blasts had been heard in Jammu and elements of the south Kashmir area, officers stated.
The assault got here a day after India thwarted makes an attempt by the Pakistan navy to hit Indian navy installations utilizing drones and missiles.
The sky was lit up in Baramulla district because the Indian navy shot down Pakistani drones.
Blasts had been heard and sirens sounded within the Jammu area and south Kashmir as many elements of the Union Territory plunged into darkness, officers stated.
Defence officers stated drones had been sighted additionally in Jammu, Samba and neighbouring Pathankot district in Punjab, and so they had been being engaged.
In Srinagar, mosque loudspeakers had been used to convey to locals to change off their lights as a precautionary measure.
Officers stated the drones had been additionally engaged in Udhampur and Nagrota of Jammu and Punjab.
Heavy cross-border shelling was underway alongside the Worldwide Border in Suchetgarh and Ramgarh sectors of Jammu and Samba districts.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah stated in a publish on X, ‘Intermittent sounds of blasts, in all probability heavy artillery, can now be heard from the place I’m.’
He additionally posted an image of town in darkness, captioning the publish as, ‘Blackout in Jammu now. Sirens could be heard throughout town.’ In one other publish, he stated,’It is my earnest attraction to everybody in and round Jammu please keep off the streets, keep at house or on the nearest place you may comfortably keep at for the subsequent few hours. Ignore rumours, do not unfold unsubstantiated or unverified tales and we’ll get by this collectively.’
On Thursday night, Indian air defence items intercepted a minimum of eight missiles fired by Pakistan in the direction of the border areas of Jammu, together with the strategically necessary Jammu airport, defence sources had stated.
Likening the assault to the ways utilized by Hamas, sources stated all ‘low-cost’ rockets directed on the Jammu area had been intercepted and neutralised by air defence items.
The missiles had been aimed toward key areas, together with Satwari (Jammu airport), Samba, RS Pura, and Arnia.
A sudden energy outage had plunged Jammu metropolis into darkness following two loud explosions, possible ensuing from the interception of the intruding drones. Instantly after, sirens had been blared all through town, alerting residents to hunt shelter.
The aerial objects had tried to strike the strategic Jammu airport and its surrounding areas, which home the military, air power, and paramilitary installations.
Pressure between the 2 neighbours soared after the Indian Armed Forces on Wednesday performed precision strikes concentrating on terror launchpads in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to the April 22 assault by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam through which 26 individuals, largely vacationers, had been killed.
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