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Reuters, Khost

Rockets fired from Pakistan hit a residential area in eastern Afghanistan killing four civilians, Afghan officials said on Sunday, one of three cross-border attacks around the same time overnight.

Tension has mounted between the neighbors with Pakistan saying 11 of its soldiers were killed in an airstrike by U.S. forces operating from Afghanistan on June 10. Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened five days later to send troops across the frontier to hunt down Taliban militants based in Pakistan.

In the latest attack to come to light, a woman and three children were killed when rockets launched from about 300 meters (yards) inside Pakistani territory landed in the eastern town of Khost, the provincial governor Arsala Jamal said.