In Haryana's Sirsa too, some locals claimed they heard blast-like sounds after midnight, reported PTI.
A police officer from Sirsa said debris of an unidentified metallic object landed in the fields of a village shortly past midnight.
"We were sleeping when we heard a loud sound. In the morning, we found that a metallic object had fallen in the fields. Later, defence personnel came and collected the debris," a villager said.
Pathankot in Punjab went into alert mode on Saturday after explosion-like sounds were heard in the border district, with the local authorities ordering closure of markets in the region as a precautionary measure.
After a night of bristling tension, people woke up to explosion-like sounds in Pathankot and Jalandhar districts, while air sirens rang out in Hoshiarpur, Amritsar and Ferozepur amid a sharp upturn in the military conflict between India and Pakistan.
The district authorities in Pathankot has set up a control room, which will function round-the-clock for the convenience of the people, officials said.
Pathankot Deputy Commissioner Aditya Uppal has urged people that if any material or object falls from the sky, they should inform the nearest police station or contact the control room.
Besides Pathankot, people also heard explosion-like sounds in Jalandhar district on Saturday morning, while air sirens rang out in Hoshiarpur, Amritsar and Ferozepur, officials said.
As military confrontation between India and Pakistan continued to escalate, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday and apprised him of the current situation, sources said.
"The CDS met the defence minister at the latter's residence this morning, during which he apprised him of the current situation," a source said.
The military confrontation between the two nuclear-armed neighbours escalated in the past few days with both the military and civil authorities in India remaining on high alert.
On Friday, Rajnath took a comprehensive review of the security scenario with the top military leadership, a day after Pakistan's attempts to target Indian military installations were repelled. Every aspect of the evolving security situation was discussed at the meeting, it was learnt.
A day earlier, he said no limit will become an obstacle to protect India's sovereignty and the nation is fully prepared for such responses.
A senior government official was among five persons killed while several others were injured in heavy Pakistani shelling in Rajouri, Poonch and Jammu districts early Saturday, officials said.
Raj Kumar Thapa, Additional District Development Commissioner, Rajouri, and his two staff members were seriously injured when an artillery shell hit his official residence in Rajouri town, the officials said.
They were rushed to the Government Medical College where Thapa succumbed to his injuries, they said.
