Pakistan’s military on Wednesday confirmed that at least 31 people were killed after India launched missile strikes into its territory and due to cross-border firing along the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border between the two countries.

India and Pakistan said they shot down each other’s drones and missiles over densely populated cities in a second day of military hostilities, while the US continued to seek to ease the flare-up between nuclear-armed neighbors triggered by last month’s deadly militant attack in the disputed region of Kashmir.