Mosque and residential buildings in Pakistan damaged by Afghan shelling as tension escalates

Описание: (27 Feb 2026)
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Bajur district village, Pakistan - 27 February 2026
1. Tilt down from roof showing damage from mortar shell to people standing inside, debris
2. Tracking of house hit by mortar shell, people
3. Various of damage, debris

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Bajur town, Pakistan - 27 February 2026
4. Various of injured patients inside Bajur district headquarters hospital, doctors
5. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Saddiq Ullah Khan, injured patient:
“There were four of us in the house and all four were wounded by the shell, my mother was wounded. She is in the ladies' ward. One of my sisters was also wounded and was taken to Peshawar, and my sister-in-law died. In my neighborhood, my cousin was killed in their house.”
6. Various of Khan on hospital bed
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Salman Khan, injured patient:
“I was watching a cricket match on television with my colleagues, when the first mortar hit our village my colleagues run away and soon after, more mortars hit our village, including a mosque, the fourth mortar hit our property's rooftop. As a result, my sister, two of my daughters and I were injured. My brother was unhurt.”
8. Khan inside hospital
9. Doctor treating wounded girl
10. Exterior of hospital
STORYLINE:
Residents in a village in the Pakistani district of Bajur described their injuries on Friday after strikes between the country and Afghanistan.

Several buildings and structures were damaged in Bajur town, as well as a village.

Pakistan's defense minister has said that his country has run out of “patience” and considers that there is now an “open war” with Afghanistan, after both countries launched strikes following an Afghan cross-border attack.

His remarks came hours after Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, as well as in Kandahar in the south and Paktia province in the southeast, according to Pakistani officials and Afghanistan government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid.

The escalation comes months after Qatar and Turkey mediated a ceasefire between the two sides.

AP video shot by Qayas Khan, Bilal Khan

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