Afghanistan says three killed in Pakistani air attacks

At least three people have been killed in northeastern Afghanistan in Pakistani air raids, Afghan officials said. Kunar provincial spokesperson Farid Dehqan told Al Jazeera that the air attack hit the Nurgal district at about 4am local time on Monday (23:30 GMT Sunday), killing three people and injuring four. Kunar is a mountainous province in northeastern Afghanistan. At least one house in Kunar province was hit in the attacks, killing three members of the same family and injuring four others, Taliban deputy spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat said in a post on X. “In the Barmal district of Paktika province, two locations were bombarded, destroying one shop and one unoccupied house, with no casualties reported,” he said.