India family say.'Whether there is war or ceasefire, our children will not come back'

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00:00For Maria Khan, the ceasefire this weekend between India and Pakistan came too late.

00:05Maria, who lives in Indian-administered Kashmir, lost her nephew and niece,

00:0912-year-old twins Zain Ali and Urwa Fatima, to cross-border shelling on 7 May.

00:16Their parents, her sister Urusa and brother-in-law Ramiz Khan, were also injured and are still in

00:22hospital. Hours earlier that day, India had launched a series of strikes in Pakistan and

00:27Pakistan-administered Kashmir in retaliation for an earlier militant attack in Indian-administered

00:33Kashmir that killed 26 tourists. The strikes were followed by a series of military actions

00:39from Islamabad and Delhi that went on till Saturday, including heavy cross-border shelling and drone

00:44strikes. People living along the Line of Control, LOC, the de-factor border between India and Pakistan,

00:51were the most vulnerable as shells fell near their homes. Maria, who lives in Punsh, a town in

00:57Indian-administered Kashmir near the Losi, is among dozens of people who lost family members

01:02in the conflict. India has said that 16 people were killed on the morning of 7 May in the shelling

01:08by Pakistan. Pakistan has said that at least 30 civilians have died since India launched its

01:14retaliatory strikes on 7 May. Like every other day, Zain and Urwa came back from school, did their

01:21homework, played a bit, had dinner, and then went to sleep. It wasn't yet dawn when the Khan family heard the

01:26sound of gunfire just a few kilometers away from their home. Terrified, they hunkered down at home

01:32and waited for a relative to come pick them up, Maria says. She adds that her sister kept calling

01:38out to Zain. When she finally spotted him, a stranger was performing CPR on the boy, trying to

01:44revive him. But he was unsuccessful.