00:00Pakistan bombed a fuel depot near Afghanistan's Kandahar airport, the ruling Taliban said Friday.
00:08It escalated the neighboring country's worst conflict in years, despite China's mediation attempts.
00:15Private airline Cam Air said more than 1,600 US tons of fuel had been lost,
00:21which Kandahar airport said supplied not just the airline, but aircraft owned by Red Crescent and the UN.
00:28The strikes on the depot threatened to spark further hostilities between two countries that share a border with Iran.
00:36Overnight Pakistani strikes also hit residential areas in Kabul, killing four people and wounding more than a dozen.
00:44While east of the capital, an official reported that a mortar shell, which Afghanistan said was fired by Pakistan, killed
00:51a woman and child.
00:52The UN in Afghanistan said the airstrikes in Kabul had killed at least four civilians and injured 14 in the
00:59Puli-Charki area.
01:01Resident Mursaleen survived the strikes.
01:04We were attacked from the Pakistani side. It was around 12.30 at night when the explosion occurred.
01:09When the blast happened, I got up and saw that everything, including the door, windows and glass, had been shattered.
01:16I went outside and saw that four people had been killed and many others were injured.
01:21Pakistan's information minister said that these strikes were part of the ongoing operation,
01:27targeting what he described as militant camps and, quote, terrorist support infrastructure in Kabul, Paksha and Kandahar.
01:35He added that dozens of Afghanistani sites had been struck, but denied any civilians had been targeted.
01:41Kabul vowed that the aggression would, quote, not go unanswered.
01:45The fighting erupted last month with Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan that Islamabad said targeted militant strongholds.
01:53Afghanistan called the strikes a violation of sovereignty, however, as it launched retaliatory attacks.
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