Explosions shake the city of Jammu, in the Indian cashmere

In the aftermath of the most serious military confrontation between the two nuclear powers for two decades, strong explosions shook, Thursday, May 8, the city of Jammu, in the Indian cashmere. A security source with the France-Presse (AFP) agency said that these explosions have affected Jammu civil airport. The origin of these explosions has not yet been determined, the same source said on condition of anonymity.

According to a police source interviewed by AFP, the city of Jammu was overflown in the evening by a swarm of drones. Some explosions were heard in her wake, she added. “We can hear strong explosions, it looks like bombs explode everywhere”said Jeet Singh, a local manager of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Prime Minister’s party, Narendra Modi. “Electricity has been cut everywhere”he added.

Associated Press (AP) and Reuters also report the declarations of inhabitants who heard explosions and alert sirens, while the local news channels have reported drones flying over the city. According to the NDTV television channel, the attack occurred “Shortly before 9 pm [heure locale] Is still underway, and mobile telephony services as well as electric current are interrupted.

Shesh Paul Vaid, former director general of the region’s police and resident of Jammu, said the city was plunged into the dark after strong explosions. “We suspect bombing, shell fire or missile strikes”, he wrote on social networks.

Call of the United States to “immediate de-escalation”

India and Pakistan have accused each other on Thursday of having conducted drone attacks, aggravating the concern of an international community which calls the two nuclear powers to a de -escalation. The Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs warned that any attack on Pakistan would arouse “A very firm answer” from India.

On Wednesday, the two countries exchanged intense artillery fire after a series of Indian strikes on Pakistani soil targeting the group accused by new Delhi of the attack on April 22 in Pahalgam. These bombings caused the death of around forty people in both camps, including many civilians.

During the night, new exchanges of artillery and light weapons took place along the control line, the border which de facto separates cashmere, a region shared between the two countries. Lahore, the Big Pakistani bordering Pakistani of India, woke up to the sound of explosions that have taken over intermittently.

India claimed to have “Neutralized” the air defense deployed there, and assured that it has acted in response to a night attack by “Pakistani missiles and drones” which was aimed “Military targets” on his soil. The Pakistani army assured in the evening to have “Labout 28 of the 29 Israeli manufacturing drones” Sent by India on at least nine cities, some housing military HQs or Intelligence, such as Rawalpindi.

Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar, assured that drones “Have tried to attack military sites”and have “Civilians’ targeted”by killing a civilian and injuring four soldiers.

“The Indian armed forces have targeted radars and air defense systems in several places in Pakistan “Said the Indian Ministry of Defense, adding that Lahore’s installations had been “Neutralized”.

For his part, the American vice-president, JD Vance, estimated on Thursday that this conflict was not “Basically not the business” of the United States, while advocating a “Décuscalade”. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also called India and Pakistan to a “Immediate de -escalation”and exhorted Islamabad to stop “Any support for terrorist groups”. In telephone exchanges with the Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Indian, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the head of American diplomacy “Expressed the support of the United States to direct dialogue between India and Pakistan and has encouraged the continuation of efforts to improve communications”said the spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce, in a press release.