(VOVworld)- Indian and Pakistani soldiers along the Line of Control (LOC) in Kashmir violated the ceasefire in Hamirpur in the Bhimber Gali area, about 185km to southwest of Kashmir on Tuesday.

Indian Border Security Force soldiers patrol over a footbridge built over a stream near the Line of Control (LoC), a ceasefire line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan, at Sabjiyan sector of Poonch district on August 8, 2013. Photo: Reuters

The exchange of gunfire has raised the tension. Colonel R K Palta, spokesperson for the Indian Army in Jammu, said the Pakistani army violated the ceasefire and used automatic weapons and mortar shells to target Indian plantations in Hamirpur. Indian soldiers had to shoot back. At a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last month, the two countries’ Prime Ministers agreed to ease tensions along the LOC as a first step towards peace in the region.