Six Pakistani civilians and one Afghan soldier were killed on Sunday in cross-border shelling and gunfire, according to officials on both sides of the frontier, Report informs, citing Reuters.
The Pakistan army said Afghan border forces had opened "unprovoked and indiscriminate fire of heavy weapons, including artillery and mortars, onto the civilian population" at the Chaman border crossing, which links Pakistan's western Balochistan province with Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province.
Six civilians were killed and another 17 wounded on the Pakistani side by the Afghan fire, leading Pakistani troops to retaliate, the Pakistan military said in a statement.
Afghan security sources said the clash started after Pakistani forces demanded Afghan forces stop building a new checkpost on their side of the border.
Kandahar police spokesman Hafiz Saber said one Afghan soldier was killed, and 10 other people, including three civilians, were injured.