India, May 10 -- Amid the escalating military conflict between India and Pakistan, a projectile hit a forest hill at Damtal village in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district, bordering Punjab's Pathankot district, at 12.30pm and exploded without harming anybody, police said.

Kangra deputy commissioner Hemraj Bairwa said that the projectile hit an uninhabited area of Damtal and no one was injured.

Local residents said they heard three blasts when the projectile hit the hill top just next to the village panchayat ghar.

Police officials, who reached the blast site, said the intended target could be Pathankot.

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