New York, March 6 (SANA) Fifty-six people, including 24 children, have been killed during a week of escalating clashes along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border, the United Nations said Friday.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the violence also injured 129 people, including 41 children and 31 women, according to Agence France-Presse. He urged both sides to halt the fighting and provide assistance to those affected.
The clashes began on Feb. 26 after Kabul launched a cross-border attack in response to Pakistani airstrikes, triggering a series of military confrontations and exchanges of fire along the frontier.
The fighting has also displaced large numbers of civilians. The U.N. refugee agency said about 115,000 people have been displaced in Afghanistan and around 3,000 in Pakistan over the past week.
