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JAMMU, India, May 25 (Reuters) Indian and Pakistani forces traded heavy fire overnight in disputed Kashmir and Pakistan test fired a surface-to-surface missile on Saturday as the United States said tension on the subcontinent was very dangerous.

"This was some of the heaviest firing in recent days," an Indian defence official said, adding artillery and mortar firing occurred in several places and one soldier was wounded.

Several people have been killed since the nuclear-armed rivals resumed heavy fire more than a week ago in the wake of a bloody raid on an Indian army camp in Kashmir.

India blames Pakistan for raids by Islamic militants in Jammu and Kashmir, its only Muslim-majority state, and elsewhere.

Pakistan tested a surface-to-surface Ghauri missile on Saturday in the first of a series of what it described as routine tests, unrelated to the tension, due over the next few days.

The United States, which plans to send a senior envoy to India and Pakistan from June 4 to ease what it says is a very dangerous situation, said before the test that it was disappointed at Pakistan's planned firing. 

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