DPA/New Delhi
A teenage girl and a woman were killed when Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded fire in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, officials said on Saturday.
Indian and Pakistani troops have been involved in intense exchanges of fire in the disputed region after three soldiers were killed in clashes on New Year's Eve.
Pakistan's military said the Indian Border Security Force "yet again resorted to unprovoked firing" on the border near Sialkot, in Pakistan"s eastern province of Punjab.
The shooting killed "13-year old Sumaira" while an 8-year old boy was injured.
In New Delhi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Pakistani Rangers had opened fire late Friday to which BSF had responded.
Pakistani shelling claimed the life of a 45-year-old woman and wounded eight more villagers in the Samba and Kathua sectors of Jammu and Kashmir state, police officials told the IANS news agency.
Singh asked Pakistan not to violate the ceasefire agreement. "We want good ties with our neighbours, but Pakistan is violating theceasefire repeatedly," Singh told reporters.
Two Pakistani troops and an Indian soldier were killed Wednesday in shooting incidents across the border in Narowal district.
Several hundred Pakistani families fled the area on Friday after shelling.
India and Pakistan have been involved in several low-intensity border clashes over the past two years. They accuse each other of violating a 10-year-old ceasefire agreement in Kashmir. The nuclear-armed neighbours have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947.