Pakistani airstrikes kill 18 family members in Nangarhar province, officials say

Pakistani airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan killed 18 members of one family in Nangarhar, Taliban officials said, sharply escalating cross-border tensions.

Taliban local officials confirmed that 18 members of a single family were killed in Pakistani airstrikes in Behsud district of Nangarhar province.

Sayed Tayeb Hamad, spokesman for the Taliban police command in Nangarhar, said that only four out of 24 family members survived the strike. The head of the household was identified as Shahabuddin.