LoC violation: Nine martyred by Indian shelling

MUZAFFARABAD: Indian shelling across the frontier into Azad Kashmir hit a bus, killing at least nine people and wounding 11, Pakistani officials said.

Indian troops attacked the bus "with small and big arms" in the town of Lawat, senior police official Jamil Mir told Reuters.

Pakistan's military media wing, ISPR, said in a statement that seven people were killed and seven wounded.

Lawat is 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-held Kashmir, in the upper belt of Neelum Valley that straddles the de facto border splitting Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

Indian officials did not comment on the deaths.