A mosque in Muzaffarabad stood half collapsed when daylight broke on Wednesday, and its older caretaker killed in a strike of India in the dark.

It was one of six places hit by New Delhi. “There were terrible sounds at night that panicked among the people,” said Muhammad Salman, who lives next to the broken bilal mosque in Muzzaffarabad.

Several houses were damaged in the attack, and the nearby school was closed Wednesday, like everyone else in the entire region and in Punjab, after it was also hit.

“The kids are very scared. We couldn’t leave our place during the night, but now we are moving to the house of our relatives,” said 52-year-old Mother Jamila Bibi.

The United Nations military observers arrived at the site to inspect it Wednesday. “We are moving to a more secure place … We are homeless now,” said 24-year-old Tariq Mir, who lives near the Bilal Mosque and was hit by grenade.

The 70-year-old caretaker for the mosque was buried Wednesday in a funeral attended by more than 600 people, an AFP journalist witnessed.

In Bahawalpur, Ali Muhammad was also shaken awake. “We slept when we heard an explosion,” he said, standing among dozens of spectators, most of them still on their scooters and observed the damage to the subhan -mosque, which was also affected.

Repeating rhetorical broadcast daily on television, radio and social media of the military, said Ali Muhammad: “We know how to answer … We’re not weak.” “We are a nuclear power.”

Meanwhile, residents of Muzaffarabad said they fled their homes and ran into the surrounding hills as India launched air strikes early Wednesday in part of the city.

Mosque speakers asked people to seek shelter as the Earth shook repeatedly, and the sounds of explosions were revised, they said. “We got outside,” said Muhammad Shair Mir, 46, describing the night’s events. “Then another explosion happened. The whole house moved. Everyone was scared, we evacuated everyone, took our children and went up (the hill).”

Many people gathered after sunrise near a mosque that had been hit in the strikes, its roof was crushed and the minaret overturned. Security forces had closed the area. The district commissioner, a senior local official, said three people were killed near the collapsed mosque.

District officials said that on the line of control, mortar and light arms between the two armies continued in the morning and had killed at least six civilians on the Pakistani side.

In Muzaffarbad, hospitals were operational, and some small businesses opened in the morning, but schools were closed and studies canceled, according to local authorities.

Shair Mir said he and his family spent four hours outdoors. Some of his neighbors had gone to the hospital with injuries and the rest was shaken, he said. “This is wrong … poor innocent people, our poor mothers are sick, our sisters are sick .. Our houses were rattled, our walls have cracked,” he said.