MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, Nov 23: Pakistani officials say the death toll from shelling by India of a passenger bus and villages along the dividing line in the disputed region of Kashmir has risen to 11.
Waheed Khan, a local official, says an artillery shell hit the bus in the Neelum Valley on Wednesday, killing nine people.
Pakistan says seven soldiers killed by Indian shelling
Police official Waseem Khan says another two died when a mortar shell hit their house in the Nakyal sector of the Pakistani-held part of Kashmir.
Pakistani army says troops are firing back on Indian military positions.
An Indian army spokesman, Col. Nitin Joshi, says India was responding to Pakistan's violation of a cease-fire.
Tensions in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which is divided between the two nuclear-armed neighbors and claimed by both in its entirety, have escalated recently with deadly exchanges.
