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Rocket attacks in Afghan border village kill six civilians
Jun 20, 2011, 9:29 GMT
Kabul - Six Afghan civilians were killed and six were injured Monday in rocket attacks in a border village between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a senior Afghan police official said.
The rockets landed on a house in the remote Nari district, said General Ewaz Mohammed, the police chief of the eastern province of Kunar.
'Twelve rockets have been fired from the other side of the border,' Ewaz said without blaming a country or group for the attack.
The border areas with Pakistan have witnessed heavy fighting between the Taliban and Pakistani forces recently.
Four children died in a similar mortar attack Friday in another border district.
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