8 Pakistanis, 1 Afghan Soldier Killed in Cross-Border Clash

8 Pakistanis, 1 Afghan Soldier Killed in Cross-Border Clash
People at the scene of a cross-border shelling between Afghanistan and Pakistan in this image taken from video on Dec. 11, 2022. Reuters/Screenshot via The Epoch Times
Reuters
Updated:

QUETTA, Pakistan—Cross-border shelling and gunfire between Afghanistan and Pakistan killed eight Pakistani civilians and one Afghan soldier on Sunday, officials on both sides of the frontier said, with each side accusing the other of starting the fighting.

The Pakistan army said Afghan border forces had opened “unprovoked and indiscriminate fire of heavy weapons including artillery/mortar on to the civilian population” at the Chaman border crossing, which links Pakistan’s western Balochistan Province with Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar Province.