Inside Bahawalpur: City on alert after India missile strikes

DW heads to a city 100km inside Pakistan after India struck a target there. Deep inside Pakistan, this is how residents are reacting.

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00:00These crowds turned up for funeral prayers for the 13 people killed in a missile strike

00:11on Subham Mosque.

00:12The Islamic seminary was among the nine locations targeted by India this week.

00:16The situation is that the morale is high for everyone, and the people are coming to the

00:21temple.

00:22India says the targets were terrorist camps, claims that Pakistan rejects.

00:33India's Operation Sindor came two weeks after an attack on tourists in Pahalgam in India

00:37and Minister Kashmir, which killed 26 people, mainly Hindu men.

00:42New Delhi claims that Pakistan was behind those who carried out the attack.

00:45Islamabad has denied the allegation.

00:47The city of Bahawalpur, close to where the mosque was struck, is about 100 kilometers

00:52from the border with India.

00:54It was a target deep inside Pakistani territory.

00:57Islamabad has called the strikes an act of war and authorized its military to respond.

01:02Meanwhile, these demonstrators in Bahawalpur chanted slogans and called for retribution.

01:06I can't reach them at the moment.

01:07I can't reach them at the moment.

01:10But the video I watched and they reached the moment late, and after they reached the moment,

01:17there were a lot of people in the midst of it.

01:19Today, we love each other, but we love each other.

01:26While protests continued on the streets, DW headed to Bahawal Victoria Hospital, which is

01:31treating those injured in the strike, including several young children.

01:35My brother, my mother and my wife, two sons, wereやって in the University.

01:39At night, we knew what they'd had to get out with.

01:43We had started getting out from the first bed and the second bed, Pres intriguing.

01:46We stood in the middle of the if they were sitting at the mower at the door.

01:49The empires were closed, and there was a creature among the abatis.

01:54We had to realize that the place was not over.

01:56And there was a creature in our lives.

01:58Hundreds of people go over.

02:02As of May 8, Bahawalpur remains under heightened security following the recent missile strikes.

02:12Military and police forces have established checkpoints throughout the city, particularly

02:17near key infrastructure and places of worship.

02:20Patrols have been intensified to ensure public safety.