Hostilities between India and Pakistan have increased on the de facto border since last month.
More than a dozen people, including six civilians, were killed in January with deadly clashes between the two countries continuing for three days.
Despite a 2003 ceasefire, India and Pakistan regularly trade fire across the so-called Line of Control (LoC), the demarcation between the Indian and Pakistani controlled parts of Kashmir.
Since independence in 1947, the two nuclear-armed neighbors have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir.
97 people killed in three years
As many as 97 people, including 41 civilians, were killed and 383 others injured in 834 ceasefire violations by the Pakistani troops in the last three years, the government of the Indian-administered Kashmir said on Monday (Feb. 5).
Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said that 379 ceasefire violations took place along the LoC and the International Border (IB) last year, while 233 violations took place in 2016 and 222 in 2015.
Mufti said that out of the 41 civilians killed in the last three years, 12 were killed in 2017, 13 in 2016 and 16 in 2015. The chief minister said that 31 security forces personnel were killed in 2017, 16 in 2016 and 9 in 2015, out of a total of 56 killed in last three years.
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