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Seoul city gov’t issued text alerts advising people to stay indoors and be cautious of objects falling from the sky.

South Korean military says Pyongyang’s claim of successful launch ‘likely to be false’.

Incident is the third this month and took place as Russian President Vladimir Putin was visiting Pyongyang.

Dozens of North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the heavily fortified border Tuesday but retreated after warning shots were fired, Seoul said, the second such incident in two weeks as Pyongyang reinforces its frontiers with the South.

Soldiers were laying mines along border at time of blasts, says South, as it reveals separate incident in which it fired warning shots at troops from North

North Korea has been reinforcing the border since abandoning a military agreement with South Korea last November.

South Korea's military fired warning shots after around 20 North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border at the weekend, Seoul officials said on Tuesday.

Incident comes at time of heightened tensions between neighbours, as tit-for-tat actions increase after North Korea sent rubbish-filled balloons into the South

Incident took place on Sunday at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two countries.

North Korea has floated another 600 trash-filled balloons across the border, the South's military said Sunday, with personnel in hazmat suits seen collecting piles of rubbish containing everything from cigarette butts to bits of cardboard and plastic.

North Korea sent around 260 balloons carrying bags of trash -- including waste batteries, cigarette butts and what appeared to be manure -- from Tuesday night to Wednesday, according to Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff, which condemned the move as "low-class" and inhumane.