India, Oct. 18 -- The Afghanistan Cricket Board on Saturday confirmed that three cricketers were killed in a Pakistani airstrike in the South Asian country's Paktika province.

They have been identified as Kabeer, Sibghatullah and Haroon.

The ACB said they had travelled from Urgun to Sharana in the eastern Paktika province on the Pakistan border to take part in a friendly match.

The ACB said apart from cricketers, five other people were killed in the strike.

"The Afghanistan Cricket Board expresses its deepest sorrow and grief over the tragic martyrdom of the brave cricketers from Urgun District in Paktika Province, who were targeted this evening in a cowardly attack carried out by the Pakistani regime," read the statement issued by th...