Afghanistan’s Cricket Board says three players were among those killed as violence continues despite extended truce.Pakistan has launched air attacks inside Afghanistan, killing at least 10 people and breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of relative calm to the border after an intensive period of bloodshed, Afghan officials say.The 48-hour truce paused nearly a week of bloody border clashes that killed dozens of soldiers and civilians on both sides.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“Pakistan has broken the ceasefire and bombed three locations in Paktika” province late on Friday, a senior Taliban official told the AFP news agency, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Afghanistan will retaliate.”Ten civilians were killed and 12 others were wounded in the attacks, a provincial hospital official told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding that two children were among the dead.The Afghanistan Cricket Board said in a statement that three players who were in the region for a tournament were killed alongside five other people “in a cowardly attack carried out by the Pakistani regime” and said seven others were injured.The ACB said in a post on social media on Saturday that the cricketers were “targeted during a gathering” in Urgun district when they returned home after playing a friendly cricket match in Sharana, the capital of Paktika province.“The ACB considers this a great loss for Afghanistan’s sports community, its athletes, and the cricketing family,” the ACB said.It also said it was withdrawing from the upcoming Tri-Nation T20I Se …
