Children among victims in Pakistan’s shelling in Afghanistan: Taliban
Al Jazeera
Cross-border clashes between the two countries intensified on February 26, two days before US, Israel attacked Iran.
The Taliban government says four members of the same family, including two children, have been killed by Pakistani artillery and mortar fire in eastern Afghanistan.
The deaths reported on Thursday bring the toll to seven people killed in Afghanistan since Tuesday in cross-border clashes, according to authorities in Kabul.
Fighting between the two countries intensified on February 26 when Afghanistan launched an offensive along their shared borde in retaliation for earlier Pakistani air strikes targeting the Pakistan Taliban, just two days before the United States and Israel attacked Iran, speaking a sprawling regional war.
Deputy government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said the latest deaths happened early on Thursday in the village of Sadqo in Khost province as he accused Pakistan of deliberately targeting civilian homes and nomads’ tents.
“Four members of a nomad family, including one woman and one man, as well as two children – one girl and one boy – were killed and three other children were wounded,” he wrote on X.
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