India Fires Missiles Into Pakistan, Officials Say

India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory Wednesday, killing at least one person and injuring two others, according to Pakistani officials.

The missiles struck locations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in the country’s eastern Punjab province, an official told The Associated Press, adding that a child was killed and two injured in the attack on Bahawalpur in the Punjab province. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]

India said in a statement that it was targeting at least nine sites “where terrorist attacks against India have been planned.”

The attack comes as tensions have been escalating between the two nuclear-armed neighbors after a group of militants attacked tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir 15 days ago, killing 26 people and injuring more than a dozen.

Pakistan vowed to respond to India’s strike “at a time and place of its own choosing”, a spokesperson for Pakistan’s armed forces said in a statement carried by the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP).

The state-run broadcaster Pakistan Television reported that security officials said that Pakistan’s air force shut down two Indian jets.

India accused Pakistan of being involved in the attack, which the Pakistani government denied. The two countries have fought over Kashmir, a region that they share, for decades.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that the recent strikes were a “shame.”

“I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past. They’ve been fighting for a long time,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I hope it ends very quickly.”