ISLAMABAD: Govt on Friday accused India of killing three civilians and wounding several others in cross-border fire, as tensions soar.

The incident occurred in Nakyal sector, near the frontier dividing Indian-held Kashmir from Pakistan's Punjab province, Pakistani officials said. "At least three people including a women and a girl were killed and five others injured when Indian troops opened fire across the border near Nakyal sector on the Line of Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan," district administration official Adnan Khursheed told AFP. Zeeshan Nisar, an administration official in Nakyal confirmed the incident, adding that a seven-year-old girl was among the dead.

A doctor at the hospital in Nakiyal sector put the number of injured slightly higher at seven.

"Three of the injured are in critical condition while four injured are stable," Muhammad Nasrullah told AFP. A local resident of the area said mortar shells had hit a house where a wedding ceremony was taking place. "A wedding ceremony was going on in a house when mortar shells hit them," Muhammad Naseer told AFP. Sazia Bibi, one of the injured said she was outside the house to fetch water when pieces of mortar shell hit her.-AFP