BAJAUR: Two children and a woman were killed while three others were injured when mortar shells fired from across the Afghan border hit a house in the Kitkot village of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district on Wednesday night, security sources said.
The sources held the Afghan Taliban responsible for the firing, terming it an act of unprovoked aggression.
They said the Afghan Taliban had been trying to get a formation of Fitna al Khawarij to infiltrate into Pakistan during the past few days. But the attempts were foiled due to timely action by the army, the sources said, adding that the Afghan Taliban then resorted to targeting the civilian population in Pakistan.
Fitna al Khawarij is a term that the state has designated for the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban.
According to security sources, the gun position from where the mortar shells were fired had been destroyed in retaliatory action by the army.
They said that all posts of the Afghan Taliban near Bajaur were being targeted in the retaliatory action, during which heavy loss of life had also been reported on the other side.
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