Indian and Pakistan troops swap intense artillery fire on Friday (May 9)

Police commandos take part in a security drill at the Punjab Assembly in Lahore on May 9, 2025, following ongoing border tensions between India and Pakistan after the Kashmir tourist attack. Pakistan charged India on May 9 with bringing the nuclear-armed neighbours "closer to a major conflict", as the death toll from three days of missile, artillery and drone attacks passed 50. The bloody escalation comes after an attack on tourists last month in the Indian-run part of disputed Kashmir that killed 26 people and which New Delhi accused Islamabad of backing but it was an allegation Pakistan denied. -- Photo by Murtaza Ali / AFP

SRINAGAR, India (AP): Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged heavy volleys of shells and gunfire across their frontier in Kashmir overnight, killing at least five civilians in a growing military standoff that erupted following an attack on tourists in the India-controlled portion of the disputed region.

In Pakistan, an unusually intense night of artillery exchanges left at least four civilians dead and wounded 12 others in areas near the Line of Control that divides Kashmir, local police official Adeel Ahmad said. People in border towns said the firing continued well into Friday morning.