Kabul: At least three policemen were killed in an airstrike by Nato-led international forces in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan and Nato officials said yesterday.
Five civilians were wounded in the anti-Taliban operation in Surkhi valley on Friday, said Mohammad Saeed Sediqqi, the Siah Gerd district governor of Parwan province.
A local police outpost was hit and three officers were killed. The International Security Assistance Force said an investigation was underway, the DPA reported.
Also on Friday, armed men abducted four employees working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the western province of Herat, on their way to the provincial capital Herat city, police said.
Islamabad: Heavy rains and hailstorms have killed at least 16 people in Northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The roofs of many houses collapsed after heavy storms and rains hit the City and suburbs. Up to 16 people including nine children, three women and four men have been killed in these accidents,” the official sources in the province capital Peshawar said yesterday.
At least 82 people including 25 children have been injured also. Most of them have head injuries, the sources added.
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