Residents border villages in Jammu are moving to migrant camps, fearing shelling by Pakistan.
There is fear at the international border in Jammu after the surgical strikes by India inside Pakistan-occupied Kashmir or PoK.
Anxious people are fleeing their homes which are directly in the line of Pakistani fire and moving to migrant camps. Nights are critical - that is the time when the shelling and firing is the most intense.
In Samba sector, it is a long, fearful night along the India-Pakistan border - people fleeing from their homes spent the night in a temple complex.
"We told them to move to safer areas, to the homes of their relatives, but if there is a problem for them to find accommodation, then we will make arrangements for them, we have established four camps," said Narayan Dutt Sharma, Sub District Magistrate.
At the makeshift migrant camp, people huddled together. It was a backbreaking journey of many hours for Gudi Devi who lives in a village called Chilyari at the international border. The 50-year-old is worried about the safety of her family members who chose to stay back home.
"We came from the border village of Chichwak into this temple, there is a fear of shelling and firing, that's why we came here, people from other villages have come here as well," said Gudi Devi, a Border Migrant.
After India conducted surgical strikes in PoK, there is tension at the international border - Jammu has a 200 kilometre international border with many areas vulnerable to strikes due to their proximity with Pakistan. So far, over 20,000 people moved out from the international on Thursday night. The question on everbody's minds is the same: when will the guns fall silent and when will they return to a peaceful, normal life.