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Indian bishop reports damage from Pakistani shelling in Kashmir
May 07, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Bishop Ivan Pereira of Jammu, India reports that two children were killed by Pakistani shelling near a Catholic school in Poonch. Shells also hit a convent, causing structural damage but no casualties.
The shelling occurred in Kashmir, where Indian and Pakistani forces have exchanged fire in an escalating dispute over control of the province.
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