Reuters. Government officials and residents assessed the damage in Muridke in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday (May 7) after India launched strikes against its neighbour in response to the killing of Indian tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir last month.
At around half past midnight, four Indian missiles hit a sprawling complex in Muridke over six minutes, a local government official said. The attack demolished a mosque as well as an adjacent administration building and buried three people in the rubble.
A sign outside describes the site as a government health and educational complex, but India says it is associated with militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Delhi and Washington blame LeT for the 2008 attack on the Indian city of Mumbai that killed more than 160 people. LeT has denied responsibility for that attack.
Wednesday’s attack left other buildings in the complex untouched. A local official said that normally there were up to 3,500 staff and students at the site, but almost everyone had been evacuated in recent days as they feared it would become a target.
