1.   Indian and Bangladeshi border guards exchanged fire near a frontier village Monday, killing at least six people and injuring seven others.

2.   In turn, it has accused Indian intruders of killing three Bangladeshis at a frontier village.

3.   Residents of five frontier villages were improving their bunkers and other shelters in wake of the intensified shelling.

4.   The assault was apparently in retaliation for the occupation of a disputed frontier village by Bangladeshi soldiers.

5.   The spokesman said the shelling, which sparked off an exodus of civilians from frontier villages, ended overnight.

6.   Pakistani shelling on Indian frontier villages in disputed Kashmir has left thousands of people mentally and physically scarred.

7.   Officials said police also raided the hide-out of a Pakistani militant in a frontier village Sunday and shot him dead when he refused to surrender.

8.   Spokesman S. Proshotam said the shelling, which sparked off an exodus of civilians from frontier Kashmiri villages, ended overnight.