ISLAMABAD - Several people were killed in clashes between Pakistan's border forces and crowds trying to cross into Afghanistan for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, officials said on Friday .
Afghan officials accused Pakistan of firing shells and gunfire across the border into a crowd of civilians, killing 15 people, while Islamabad said Afghan forces opened fire first. The normally busy crossing has been largely closed for months in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, but was briefly opened on Thursday morning."Frontier Corps troops deployed on the border fired into the air. This did not kill anyone, but later protesters started throwing stones at the troops," Mr Ali said.
On the Afghan side meanwhile, Mr Baheer Ahmad, a spokesman for the Kandahar provincial governor, told AFP that 15 people had been killed and 80 others wounded"as a result of shelling and sporadic firing by the Pakistani border forces".Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Fawad Aman said on Facebook that"attacks by the Pakistani military on Afghan soil on Thursday" had killed nine civilians and wounded 50 others.
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