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Children learn emergency drills as Kashmir tensions rise

  • Local authorities in Pakistani Kashmir began first aid training this week to prepare children for potential conflict with India amid rising tensions.
  • This training follows a deadly April 22 gun attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, blamed by India on Pakistan, which denied involvement.
  • Training in schools around Muzaffarabad teaches youth to evacuate, use fire extinguishers, and provide first aid, while residents build bunkers near the Line of Control.
  • Twelve-Year-Old Faizan Ahmed said students learn to help friends and provide first aid, while trainer Abdul Basit Moughal warned that "there's a possibility of war".
  • The preparations reflect widespread concern near the heavily militarised Line of Control, with Pakistan citing credible intelligence of an imminent Indian attack.
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In Muzaffarabad, the main city of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, emergency service workers are training school children on what they should do if India attacks. The children are being trained in how to do first aid, how to carry someone on a stretcher, how to extinguish a fire, etc.

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With more than 6,000 schools, colleges and high schools in Pakistani Kashmir, including a thousand along the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border in Kashmir, local authorities have launched

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Children learn emergency drills as Kashmir tensions rise

School playing fields in Pakistan's Kashmir are being transformed into first aid camps for children to learn how to respond if war breaks out with India.

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Controlling breathing, sending an emergency call, heart pressure massage – this is what lessons look like when Dr. Andreas Atzeni comes into a school class. His goal: Children should not only be able to calculate and write, but also to save lives in an emergency.

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KULR-TV broke the news in Billings, United States on Thursday, May 1, 2025.
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