section_path: Casualties/India
section_name: India
paragraph_text: India
  
  India said that 21 civilians and 8 military and paramilitary personnel had died in the conflict. Majority of the deaths and injuries were from mortar shelling by Pakistan in the Jammu region of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir particularly its Poonch district, where Indian media sources said that a gurudwara, a school and several houses were damaged in the attacks, leaving 14 civilians and 2 Indian soldiers dead. Pakistani shelling hit in and near the Christ School compound, a Carmelites of Mary Immaculate congregation Catholic school in Poonch, killing two students and damaging the nearby convent of the Congregation of Mother of Carmel. A Pakistani loitering munition resulted in the death of a civilian in the Firozpur district of Punjab, the only Indian death outside Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. An Indian Air Force soldier was killed following Pakistan's airstrike on Udhampur Air Force Station, and a deputy commissioner was killed during Pakistani shelling in Rajouri. Pakistan claimed that around 25–50 Indian soldiers were killed.