Kabul, Oct 18: At least three Afghanistani cricketers have been killed in a Pakistani airstrike in Paktika province.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said that the players had travelled from Urgun to Sharana in the eastern Paktika province on the Pakistan border to take part in a tri-nation series with Pakistan and Sri Lanka next month.
The ACB named the three players as “Kabeer, Sibghatullah and Haroon” and said that five other people were also killed in the attack.
It said that “after returning home to Urgun, they were targeted during a gathering” in what it described as “a cowardly attack carried out by the Pakistani regime”. The ACB did not give any more details on the attack.
Following the attack, Afghanistan pulled out of a tri-nation series with Pakistan and Sri Lanka next month. “as a gesture of respect to the victims”.
(NDTV)
