Up to 200 families have been displaced after Pakistani armed forces reportedly fired missiles into Lalpur district and other areas of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar and Kunar provinces, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said in a press statement on Monday.
Civilian injuries have also been reported. Many of these families fled to Lalpur district’s center and Chiknawor village, in neighboring Muhmand Dara district, the NRC said.
“Military fire across the border into Nangarhar and Kunar provinces has forced Afghan families to flee their homes. Whether indiscriminate or specifically targeted, such attacks forcibly displace civilians, violating International Humanitarian Law, and must stop,” said NRC Country Director in Afghanistan, Kate O'Rourke
“The rocket firing started Friday morning, so we left the village. It took our family one and half hours to walk to Wara Lalpura,” said Haji Zia Jan, a 62 year-old IDP, by phone. “My son went back to the area again Saturday. He said all of the walls had collapsed and most of the animals had been killed,” he added.
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