India said Tuesday that five of its soldiers died after their border post was attacked in the disputed region of Kashmir, six months after some of the most serious violence in a decade derailed peace talks with neighbor Pakistan.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on his official Twitter account that he had been briefed on the killings. The deaths call into question recent overtures by Pakistan's newly elected government to resume meetings, he said.
A Pakistan Army spokesman said by phone that no incident had taken place and that the nation's troops hadn't carried out unprovoked firing along the frontier.
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