NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD India shot down a Pakistani plane Tuesday, both sides confirmed -- but while India said it downed a spy plane over its own territory, Pakistan insisted the aircraft was downed over Pakistan while on a training flight. Officials in Delhi said Indian troops were on a high state of alert after what they called a Pakistani navy reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by a missile inside the western state of Gujarat. They said all 16 Pakistani crew of the French-made turbo-prop Breguet Atlantique aircraft were killed when it was brought down at 11.15 a.m.

local time by a missile fired by an Indian air force MiG- 21 fighter jet over Kori Creek in the Kutch area of Gujarat. The wreckage had fallen two kilometres inside Indian territory. Indian air force planes and helicopters and the paramilitary border security force marine wing were extricating the wreckage and locating bodies. (DPA)