First Thing: Pakistan PM authorises ‘corresponding action’ after India strikes kill 26

People look at part of an unidentified aircraft at a mosque compound in Pampore, on the outskirts of Srinagar. Photograph: Farooq Khan/EPA

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At least 26 people, including several children, have been killed and 46 injured after India launched attacks on what it claimed were nine sites of “terrorist infrastructure” inside Pakistan, in a sharp escalation of hostilities between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.