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AMRITSAR, India/ MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (REUTERS)
A fragile ceasefire is holding between India and Pakistan on Sunday, after hours of alleged overnight fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours, as US President Donald Trump said he will work to provide a solution regarding Kashmir.
The countries were involved in intense firing for four days, the worst in nearly three decades, with missiles and drones being fired at each other's military installations and dozens of people killed.
A ceasefire agreement was reached after diplomacy and pressure from the US.
Blasts from air-defence systems boomed in cities near the border under blackout, similar to the previous two evenings, according to authorities, residents and Reuters witnesses.
Power was restored in most areas along India's border towns after a blackout the previous night.
Trump praised leaders of both countries for agreeing to halt the aggression.
"While not even discussed, I am going to increase trade, substantially, with both of these great nations. Additionally, I will work with you both to see if... a solution can be arrived at concerning Kashmir," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
The fighting started on Wednesday, May 7, two weeks after 26 men were killed in an attack in Pahalgam in Indian Kashmir. The two countries, born out of British colonial rule in 1947, have gone to war three times - twice over the region of Kashmir.
The combined death toll in the recent skirmishes has reached nearly 70, officials have said.
