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WANA, April 29: At least five civilians, including four children and one woman, were seriously injured after mortar shells fired from across the Afghan border struck a residential area in Angoor Adda, South Waziristan, according to security sources on Tuesday.

Sources said the shells were allegedly fired by Afghan Taliban forces and landed on the house of local residents Karim Khan and Rahmatullah in the border area adjacent to Angoor Adda.

The injured were immediately shifted to District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital Wana for medical treatment.

Security officials described the incident as an unprovoked attack on the civilian population. They said a similar incident had taken place a few days earlier in the same area, where three people were injured due to firing from across the border.

According to the sources, Pakistan Army troops responded strongly to the shelling and targeted several posts on the Afghan side along the border. They said that Afghan personnel abandoned their positions following the retaliatory fire.

Security sources further stated that civilian populations in border regions have repeatedly come under attack in recent months, adding that Pakistani forces were responding only to military targets.

Officials said security operations in the area would continue until all designated objectives were achieved.