Gunfire and shelling battered the disputed borderlands of India and Pakistan on Friday, as the two nuclear-armed countries launched volleys in their most expansive military conflict in decades, with widespread accounts of attacks in both countries.

The exchanges of fire stopped early Friday, and Indian and Pakistani authorities said that civilians were among those injured and killed. But there was also a swirl of disinformation, and the governments made contradictory statements, making it difficult to verify the nature, location and toll of the attacks.

The recent fighting started after a terrorist attack killed 26 people in a tourist area on the Indian side of Kashmir last month. India accused Pakistan of being involved in the attack and vowed to take military action. Pakistan denied that claim.

The conflict has escalated rapidly since Indian airstrikes hit targets in Pakistan and the Pakistani-controlled side of Kashmir on Wednesday, despite diplomatic efforts to ease tensions. There were reports of nonstop barrages along the border overnight into Friday, as well as reports of attacks by Pakistan into the Indian city of Jammu, a part of the disputed Kashmir territory.

On Friday, the Indian army said that Pakistani armed forces had launched attacks using drones and other weapons along India’s entire western border. The army said on social media that the drone attacks had been intercepted. Pakistan has rejected those claims.

Jammu appeared to be under attack for a second consecutive night. Residents reported a blackout and sounds of explosions. Omar Abdullah, the region’s top elected official, said he could hear “intermittent sounds of blasts, probably heavy artillery.”

It was a new kind of battle for the two old enemies: Drones, which India also used this week, have not been central weapons in previous fights between the two nations.

In the India-administered part of Kashmir, the city of Jammu and others were blacked out completely, with residents reporting drones and missiles flying overhead as they sheltered in their homes. Blasts also hit towns in the Pakistan-administered side of Kashmir, damaging some houses.

Meanwhile, social platform X in a statement on Thursday said the Indian government had ordered it to block users in the country from accessing more than 8,000 accounts, including a number of “international news organizations and other prominent users.” The social platform did not release the list of accounts it was blocking in India, but said the order “amounts to censorship of existing and future content, and is contrary to the fundamental right of free speech.” Later, X briefly blocked access to the Global Affairs Account from which it had posted the statement, also citing a legal demand from India.

India’s biggest domestic cricket tournament, the Indian Premier League, which attracts top players from around the world, was suspended for one week. Pakistan also moved its own domestic tournament to the United Arab Emirates because of the tensions.

Panic also spread during an evening cricket match in northern Dharamsala city, where a crowd of more than 10,000 people had to be evacuated from the stadium and the game called off, according to an Associated Press photographer covering the event.

Meanwhile, several northern and western Indian states, including Punjab, Rajasthan, Indian-controlled Kashmir, shut schools and other educational institutions for two days.

The impact of border flare up was also seen in the Indian stock markets. In early trade on Friday, the benchmark Sensex tanked 662 points to 79,649 while Nifty 50 declined 215 points to trade at 24,058.

As fears of military confrontation soar and worried world leaders call for de-escalation, the U.S. Vice President JD Vance has said that a potential war between India and Pakistan would be “none of our business.”

“What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit, but we’re not going to get involved in the middle of war that’s fundamentally none of our business and has nothing to do with America’s ability to control it,” Vance said in an interview with Fox News.

Speaking Friday morning, residents in both parts of Kashmir said they were exhausted; some said it was the worst shelling they had experienced in nearly three decades.

“We’re fed up with running every time the shelling begins,” said Atta Mohammad, 70, a resident of Uri, a town on the Indian side of Kashmir. “It’s better that both countries go for a nuclear war and kill us all. At least that will rid us of this suffering.”

India and Pakistan, which became separate countries in 1947, have fought three wars, with disputes over Kashmir playing a role in each one. Their war in December 1971 established the Line of Control, which divided Kashmir.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.