At least 47 dead in Afghanistan after Pakistan attacks: Officials

The death toll from Pakistan’s military air raids on targets in the eastern Afghanistan provinces of Khost and Kunar on Saturday has risen to at least 47, officials said.

“Forty-one civilians, mainly women and children, were killed and 22 others were wounded in air strikes by Pakistani forces near the Durand Line in Khost province,” Shabir Ahmad Osmani, director of information and culture in Khost, told AFP on Sunday.

Two other officials confirmed the death toll in Khost, while an Afghan official said on Saturday that six people were killed in Kunar province.

Afghanistan’s largest news channel, TOLO News, showed images of children’s bodies it said were killed in the air attack.