Islamabad, Oct 16: Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Thursday that Pakistan carried out two drone strikes on Kabul the day before.
The attacks on Wednesday came just before the two countries declared a truce following the deadliest violence between them in years.
Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief, told The Associated Press that the strikes hit the city on Wednesday afternoon.
The first target was a civilian house, while the second was a market. Zadran did not give casualty figures, but doctors at a hospital said earlier that five people were killed and dozens were injured.
The surgical centre run by Emergency, a nongovernmental organisation, said the wounded had shrapnel wounds, blunt force trauma, and burns.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban government’s chief spokesman, initially said there had been an oil tanker explosion. (AP)
