At least three people have been killed in northeastern Afghanistan in Pakistani air raids, Afghan officials said.
Kunar provincial spokesperson Farid Dehqan told Al Jazeera that the air attack hit the Nurgal district at about 4am local time on Monday (23:30 GMT Sunday), killing three people and injuring four.
Pakistan’s information ministry said that 28 “terrorists” were killed in air strikes on three targets in Afghanistan.
Taliban deputy spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat said at least one house in Kunar, a mountainous province in northeastern Afghanistan, was hit in the attacks, killing three members of the same family and injuring four others.
The attacks threaten to reignite tensions between the neighbors after nearly three months of relative calm.
Relations between the former allies have been strained since February, when the two sides fought their worst clashes in years.
The dispute centers on violence in Pakistan, with Islamabad accusing Kabul of harboring armed groups that stage cross-border attacks from Afghan territory.
Afghanistan’s Taliban government denies the charges and says the violence is Pakistan’s internal problem.
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