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Reuters, Srinagar

India will lodge a protest with Pakistan after soldiers came under heavy cross-border fire while trying to stop a group of armed men from sneaking into its part of Kashmir, a security official said on Friday.

The firing took place in Samba sector, 400 km south of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir's main city, late on Thursday night, minutes after border guards saw the intruders cutting part of a barbed wire fence. Indian soldiers fired back, the official said.

"We are not yet sure whether it was terrorist fire or Pakistani troops, but we are lodging a protest with Pakistan anyway," K. Srinivasan, a senior Border Security Force (BSF) official told Reuters.