AKIPRESS.COM - Artillery fire continued between nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India across the de facto border in Kashmir as tensions ratchet up after a deadly attack on Indian soldiers last month, reports Al Jazeera.

Pakistan's military alleged that Indian forces fired without provocation on Wednesday, an attack that wounded one woman but did not cause substantial damage on Pakistan's side of the divided Himalayan territory.

Forces from Pakistan then retaliated.

Pakistani sources say there has been frequent movement in recent days of military equipment towards the Line of Control – the de facto border separating Indian and Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

Mirza Arshad, a police deputy commissioner, said that 100 to 150 people had been evacuated on Wednesday after the shelling and were sheltering in schools in Bhimber district.

"There was firing for about 1-1.5 hours... but there's no report of any human losses," he said.

Muslim-majority Kashmir is claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan. The two countries have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947 – two over Kashmir.

The latest tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors follow the killing of 18 Indian soldiers in a cross-border attack by suspected Kashmiri rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir last month.

In response, India's military said it had conducted "surgical strikes" against "terrorist units" on Pakistan's side of the border. Pakistan rejected the claims as an "illusion".