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Eight Afghan civilians die in bombing, border shelling

Other News Materials 21 July 2012 22:33 (UTC +04:00)

Mortar shells and artillery fired from Pakistan killed at least four Afghan civilians and injured six others, Afghan officials said on Saturday, DPA reported.

It was the last in a spate of cross-border attacks into eastern Afghanistan for which Afghan officials have blamed the Pakistani military.

Wasifullah Wasifi, Kunar Province's governor's spokesman, said that around 300 rockets have landed in two district of the province in the last 24 hours, fired from the border by "Pakistani forces."

Both the districts which came under attack, Dangam and Shegal, border Pakistan's lawless tribal area of Chitral.

Kunar police chief also confirmed that the two districts have been hit by hundreds of missile rockets fired from other side of the border.

"As result of the shelling by the Pakistani forces, tens of houses have been destroyed and families forced to run away," Wasifi said.

This is not first time that Afghan soil come under what Afghan officials say Pakistani forces' shelling in eastern border.

Meanwhile, four civilians died and two were wounded when their minivan was hit a roadside bomb Saturday in neighbouring Nangarhar province, a government spokesman said.

"The incident took place ... in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province when a civilian minivan was heading towards Jalalabad city, the provincial capital," said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the provincial governor's spokesman.

He blamed Taliban insurgents for planting the bomb.

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