ISTANBUL/ISLAMABAD 

At least eight people have been killed and 35 injured while two are missing after India launched missile attacks inside Pakistan, a spokesperson for the Pakistani Army said Wednesday.

The Indian army, “using different weapons, targeted six places, which left 24 impacts,” Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry told a pre-dawn news conference in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.

The targeted places, including a mosque, were inside Pakistan as well as in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, he said.

Earlier, India said it launched missile attacks targeting nine sites of "terrorist infrastructure" in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

The escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbors comes in the wake of an April 22 attack in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir in which 26 people were killed.

India had blamed Pakistan for the attack, claiming there were cross-border links. Pakistan denied that it had anything to do with the killings.