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Pakistan 'shoots down two Indian jets' - after India fires missiles on 'terrorist camps'
India said it had carried out a "precision strike" on "terrorist camps" - but Pakistan's defence minister said all the targets hit were civilian places, not militant camps.India has fired missiles across the border into Pakistani-controlled territory, Pakistani security officials have said.
Afterwards, Pakistan's air force shot down two Indian jets, state-run Pakistan Television reported, quoting Pakistani officials.
Locations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in the country's eastern Punjab province were hit in the Indian attack, according to officials.
India said it had carried out a "precision strike" on "terrorist camps" and its actions were "focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature", adding: "No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted."
But Pakistan's defence minister said all the targets hit were civilian places, not militant camps.
At least three areas were targeted and one of the missiles struck a mosque in the city of Bahawalpur in Punjab, where a child was killed, and a woman and man were injured, it was reported.
Also, two women were wounded, one of them critically, in Indian-administered Kashmir in shelling by Pakistani troops, according to police.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif called the Indian missile attack an "act of war" and vowed his country "has every right to give a full and strong response".
The Indian defence ministry said it had launched Operation Sindoor, hitting "terrorist infrastructure" in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir "from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed".
It said a total of nine sites were targeted.
Tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours have been escalating following a militant gun attack in the disputed area of Kashmir last month.

Pakistan 'shoots down two Indian jets' - after India fires missiles on 'terrorist camps'
India said it had carried out a "precision strike" on "terrorist camps" - but Pakistan's defence minister said all the targets hit were civilian places, not militant camps.