6 Afghans dead in new cross border attack in Kunar

ASADABAD (PAN): Six civilians have been killed in a new cross-border attack by Pakistani forces on a village in eastern Kunar province, the governor said on Monday.

A number of rocket and mortar shells fired from Pakistan struck civilian homes in the Saw village of Nari district on Sunday night, Syed Fazlullah Wahidi, told Pajhwok Afghan News.

Six people, including women and children, were killed when one of the shells hit a house, he said. A number of residences were also damaged in the shelling.

Wahidi strongly condemned the cross-border attack and called for an immediate end to similar attacks.

The governor said that some of shells had weighed 80 kilograms.

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