LAWARA (Afghanistan), June 12: Rockets fired from Pakistan at a US and Afghan military base in south-eastern Afghanistan landed on civilian houses and wounded a family of five, an Afghan governor claimed on Tuesday.
Several rockets were fired late on Monday at a base in Paktika province, just kilometres away from the Pakistani border, provincial governor Mohammad Akram Khepelwak told AFP. One fell on a civilian house.
“A woman, three children and a man were wounded in a rocket attack on their home yesterday,” he said.
Around 50 rockets have been fired into the district, called Barmal, in the past few days from across the border, he claimed. Only Monday’s caused casualties.
Asked who may have been responsible, he said the “enemies of Afghanistan”, a phrase that usually refers to the Taliban and their allies.
The IRC warned on Tuesday that Afghan civilians were paying the price as increasingly bitter fighting between international forces and Taliban insurgents spreads across Afghanistan. “The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is worse now than it was a year ago,” said the ICRC.—AFP
