India and Pakistan step up military strikes amid calls to de-escalate

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Pakistan and India launched strikes and counter-strikes against each other's military installations on Saturday (May 10), prompting the international community's calls for the nuclear-armed neighbours to begin talks and defuse their escalating conflict, the most intense since 1999.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00At least three civilians were killed in Indian-administered Rajuri city in Kashmir region on Saturday

00:09following a Pakistani retaliatory military operation against India. Authorities from both

00:14sides estimate the death toll to rise to more than a hundred people including civilians,

00:19soldiers and militants since fighting at the India-Pakistan border escalated on Wednesday.

00:24A security staff at the Rajuri government medical college hospital said besides three casualties

00:32another two people were in critical condition. He said they had dispatched ambulances to check

00:37on the victims who were wounded by airstrikes and shelling. Several Indian cities including

00:42Poonch and Amritsar reported heavy shelling and drone attacks with residents saying that

00:46they happened at about 5 a.m. bringing chaos to the neighbourhoods.

00:53In Pakistan's Chakoti village residents said they spent the night in bunkers due to the

01:04shelling, while Pakistan's military said India fired missiles at three of its air bases early

01:09Saturday morning.

01:13In Pakistan's Chakoti village residents said they spent the night in bunkers due to the shelling,

01:18while Pakistan's military said India fired missiles at three of its air bases early Saturday morning,

01:23including one close to Islamabad.

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01:53The missile attack by India on the Pakistan Air Force basis majority of missiles have been

02:07intercepted by the alert air defense system of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The few that

02:14have been able to sneak in have not been able to cause any damage to the flying assets of

02:22Pakistan Air Force as per the initial damage assessment reports. I want to show the people

02:28of Pakistan that your armed forces are vigilant and thwarting. They said some 77 Indian drones were

02:38shot down or eliminated in Pakistani territory over the past two days and they vowed to finish

02:43what the Indian forces had started in response to the deadly terrorist attack on Indian tourists

02:48at a popular tourist spot near Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir region on April 22.

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