Cross-border shelling: Four killed in South Waziristan

Security forces official says shells fired by Afghan National Army; Pakistan condemns incident.


Our Correspondent November 11, 2012

ISLAMABAD: Four people were killed in the Narai area of South Waziristan on Sunday when mortar shells were fired by members of the Afghan National Army.

According to a senior security forces official, mortar shells were fired from the KK Top check post in Afghanistan, which hit a vehicle carrying four passengers, killing them on the spot.

The identities of the dead could not be ascertained until the filing of this story.

According to military sources, Pakistan has condemned the incident.

Earlier on November 8, a woman was killed and a man injured when mortar shells fired by coalition forces from across the border in Afghanistan landed on houses in the Datta Khel tehsil of North Waziristan Agency.

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