One civilian was killed and five others were injured on Tuesday when mortar fire struck houses and a market in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Pakistani official said on Wednesday. The shells were blamed on Afghan militants.
What the official said
According to the official, the rounds landed on homes and a marketplace. The statement was given a day after the attack. The Pakistani military also released video of the aftermath. The remarks did not name a precise town or tehsil within the province.
What remains unclear
The available account does not list the victims’ names, ages, or the exact market locality, and it does not say whether further shelling followed. The source of the fire was described as Afghan militants, not as an action by Afghanistan’s formal state forces.
