Cross-Border Attack: Afghan shelling kills 4 Pakistani soldiers

More than 20 mortar shells were fired from across the border, says officials.

MIRANSHAH: Pakistani officials on Tuesday accused the Afghan Army of firing mortar bombs across the border, killing four and wounding two Pakistani soldiers in South Waziristan.

“Four soldiers were killed and two others wounded in the cross-border attack,” a security official in Peshawar told AFP, saying that the shelling continued for around two hours.

“More than 20 mortar shells were fired from across the border. Three shells slammed into a paramilitary Frontier Corps checkpost in Angoor Adda,” he said. 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 20^th, 2011.