Two Indian paramilitary guards were killed and three wounded as Pakistan troops opened fire on the border in India's trouble-torn Jammu and Kashmir state, Indian officials said today.
They said the guards, who were in a patrol, were killed in the Samba sub-sector, 45 km (30 miles) south of Jammu, the winter capital of India's only Muslim-majority state.
The troops were on a routine patrol along the international border when Pakistan border guards opened fire killing two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, a senior BSF official told Reuters.
Tension between the two nuclear capable neighbours has been running high since a December 13th attack on India's parliament which New Delhi blamed on two Pakistan-based militant groups.
Muslim separatist rebel groups have been battling Indian security forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir since 1989.
On Friday India recalled its envoy from Islamabad because of what New Delhi termed Pakistan's failure to act against terrorism.
Indian and Pakistan troops have exchanged fire at points along their border in disputed Kashmir several times in recent days.
Both countries have put their troops on high alert but India said its troop movements were a precautionary measure and a reaction to what it said was the large mobilisation of Pakistani troops.