Indo-Pak troops trade fire across LoC

Shelling by Pakistani troops began Tuesday and continued early Wednesday, a police source said, adding the area targetted was the border district of Poonch, 240 km west of Kashmir's winter capital Jammu.

"Some shells from the Pakistani side landed close to a makeshift shelter near Poonch hospital where relatives of the sick are housed," the source said.

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The shells damaged a wall of the hospital, which houses about 600 patients, but there were no casualties, he said.

Indian troops retaliated to the Pakistani shelling, he added.