India ‘accidentally’ fires missile into Pakistan in ‘deeply regrettable’ incident

A ‘technical malfunction’ was blamed for the incident and a high-level investigation has been launched (Image: Reuters)

India’s army has admitted to ‘unintentionally’ firing a missile into Pakistan.

Nobody was killed within the ‘deeply regrettable’ incident on Wednesday, New Delhi’s Defence Ministry mentioned.

A ‘technical malfunction’ has been blamed, with officers ordering a high-level investigation.

The confession got here after Pakistan’s armed forces accused India of placing lives in peril with the ‘unprovoked violation of its airspace’.

A warning has been issued for the nation ‘to be conscious of the disagreeable penalties of such negligence and take efficient measures to keep away from the recurrence off such violations in future’.

The neighbours – which each have nuclear weapons – have fought three wars and have engaged in quite a few army clashes.

The ‘high-speed flying object’ crashed close to the japanese metropolis of Mian Channu after coming from the northern Indian metropolis of Sirsa, in Haryana state.

It travelled at an altitude of 40,000 ft, at thrice the velocity of sound, and flew 77 miles in Pakistani airspace earlier than crashing.

Pakistan has warned India ‘to be conscious’ following the missile blast

Nobody was killed by the blast, but it surely nonetheless raised tensions between two nuclear powers with an extended historical past of battle (Image: Reuters)

The missile travelled thrice the velocity of sound and flew 77 miles into Pakistani airspace earlier than crashing

A soldier salutes subsequent to an Akash missile system throughout India’s 73rd Republic Day (Image: Anadolu Company by way of Getty Photos)

In dramatic scenes, Pakistan’s overseas workplace summoned India’s cost d’affaires in Islamabad to lodge a protest over the incident.

Army spokesman Main-Basic Babar Iftikhar mentioned in a late night information convention on Thursday: ‘The flight path of this object endangered many nationwide and worldwide passenger flights each in Indian and Pakistani airspace in addition to human life and property of floor.’

An announcement launched by India’s Ministry of Defence at this time learn: ‘On 9 March 2022, in the midst of a routine upkeep, a technical malfunction led to the unintentional firing of a missile.

‘The Authorities of India has taken a severe view and ordered a high-level Court docket of Enquiry.

‘It's learnt that the missile landed in an space of Pakistan.

‘Whereas the incident is deeply regrettable, it's also a matter of aid that there was no lack of life as a result of incident.’

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