Srinagar:
A number of explosions were heard in the background as an NDTV crew reported from the bottom in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar amid escalating tensions with Pakistan.

Pakistan deployed between 300 and 400 drones, recognized preliminarily as Turkish-made Asisguard Songar fashions, on the evening of Could 8-9. Many had been intercepted utilizing a mixture of kinetic and digital warfare techniques, together with the Barak-8 and S-400 Triumph missile defence platforms, Akash SAMs, and indigenous anti-drone applied sciences.

At 6 AM immediately, throughout a reside broadcast by NDTV’s Shiv Aroor, reporting from the bottom in Srinagar, a number of explosions could possibly be heard within the background. 

Among the many places focused final evening and early morning immediately had been Srinagar airport, the Awantipora airbase, Nagrota, Jammu, Pathankot, Fazilka, and Jaisalmer.

In Ferozpur, a drone assault on a civilian space injured three members of an area household. No Indian navy installations had been broken.

Pakistan this morning shut down its airspace for all air visitors, hours after India accused it of sing industrial flights as shields amid drone assaults. The choice, notified by way of a Discover to Airmen (NOTAM), got here amid heightened tensions between the 2 nuclear-armed neighbours.

India accused Pakistan of endangering worldwide air visitors by holding its airspace open whereas executing drone and missile operations.

Highly effective explosions had been additionally reported early Saturday throughout a number of Pakistani air bases, together with a crucial set up close to the capital Islamabad, prompting the Pakistani authorities to close down the nation’s airspace to all civilian and industrial visitors.