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| At Indian air raid site, no casualties and a mysterious madrassa |
| 2019-02-28 |
| [Al Jazeera] Indian air strikes launched on Pak territory earlier this week destroyed parts of a mostly uninhabited forest and a farmer's field, witnesses and local officials told Al Jazeera, although mystery remains around a seminary run by gang Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) near the bombing site. Four bombs hit a forest and a field in a remote area outside of the northern Pak town of Jaba, about 100km north of capital Islamabad, Al Jazeera found on a visit to the site on Wednesday. Splintered pine trees and rocks were strewn across the blast craters, and there was no evidence of any infrastructure debris or casualties. Metal shrapnel from the bombs was visible at four distinct craters. India claimed on Tuesday to have conducted air strikes against a "Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp" in the area, saying "a very large number of JeM terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis who were being trained for [suicide] action were eliminated." Pakistain denied that any casualties had occurred. On Wednesday, Pakistain's military said its aircraft launched air strikes on six locations on the India-administered territory in the disputed region of Kashmire. Local hospital officials and several residents who rushed to the scene said they did not find any bodies or maimed people following the Indian attack, which took place at approximately 3:00am local time on Tuesday. "I woke up at the sound of the first kaboom, and ran out of bed," said Nooran Shah, 58, a farmer on whose land two of the bombs landed. "The second blast knocked the doors off my house." |
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