18 Die in Attack on Pakistan Mosque
Indian rockets slammed into a mosque in a remote Pakistani border village Friday, killing at least 18 Muslim worshipers and seriously injuring 20 others, a news agency reported.
The state-run Associated Press of Pakistan said two Indian rockets hit the mosque in Forward Kahuta, 180 miles northeast of the capital, Islamabad.
The report could not be independently confirmed.
Pakistani troops were on high alert, an army spokesman said, but a Defense Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying that Pakistan would refrain from retaliation.
The tiny mosque, located only a few miles from the disputed border separating Pakistan and India, was packed with worshipers observing the Muslim Sabbath, which is celebrated on Friday.
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