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5 killed in cross-border fire with Pakistan: Afghan health official

Published: 06 Nov 2025 - 09:50 pm | Last Updated: 06 Nov 2025 - 09:51 pm

AFP

Kabul: Five people were killed Thursday in brief cross-border fire between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a hospital official on the Afghan side told AFP, in an incident both countries blamed on each other.

According to the anonymous official at the Spin Boldak district hospital in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, "five people died in today's incident -- four women and one man -- and six were wounded."