Three members of a family in Punjab’s Firozpur town were on Friday injured after a Pakistani drone hit a civilian area, defence officials said.

The three persons suffered burn injuries and were immediately taken to a hospital, Senior Superintendent of Police Bhupinder Singh Sidhu said, according to ANI. The official said that the Army had neutralised most other drones in the area.

Defence officials said drones were sighted at 26 places along the Line of Control and International Border, ranging from Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir to Bhuj in Gujarat. These included suspected armed drones that posed a threat to civilian and military targets.

For the second consecutive day, several cities in the northern and western parts of the country on Friday witnessed blackouts, with reports of explosions and sirens being heard.

Blackouts were implemented in the districts of Jammu and Samba in Jammu and Kashmir, Pathankot and Firozpur in Punjab, Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, and in the Kachchh district of Gujarat, ANI reported.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said he could hear “intermittent sounds of blasts, probably heavy artillery” in Jammu.

News agency ANI released deferred visuals of explosions being heard and red streaks seen across the skies in Samba district. The agency quoted unidentified defence sources as saying that Pakistani drones were again seen in the Jammu, Samba and Pathankot sectors.

Suspected drone attacks were also reported in Srinagar, in response to which countermeasures were initiated, PTI quoted unidentified officials as saying.

This came a day after India accused Pakistan of attacking military stations in Jammu, Pathankot and Udhampur near the International Border using missiles and drones. The Indian Army alleged on Friday that Pakistan launched 300 to 400 drones targeting military installations in 36 locations along India’s northern and western borders, all of which were intercepted.

A blackout was enforced in several cities in North India, including Jammu, on Thursday night due to the attacks.

Throughout the daytime on Friday, commercial establishments, banks and government offices were open as usual in Jammu, The Indian Express reported. However, educational institutions, except medical colleges, were shut on account of closure orders till May 12.

The Indian military on Wednesday carried out strikes – codenamed Operation Sindoor – on what it claimed were terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam terror attack, which left 26 persons dead.

At least 31 persons were killed and 46 injured in Pakistan in India’s strikes, reported Al Jazeera. Islamabad claimed that the strikes killed and injured several civilians and called the operation a violation of its sovereignty.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said that Operation Sindoor was carried out with “precision, alertness and humanity” to ensure that civilians were not affected. He reiterated India’s position that the action was “focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature”.

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