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US kills 13 Afghan children and women
NATO kills 13 Afghan children and women
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
KHOST: Up to 13 civilians, mostly women and children were killed in a NATO airstrike on Thursday in the eastern Afghan province of Khost according to provincial police chief Mohamad Zazai. “Unfortunately eight women, four children, and one man were killed in a NATO airstrike on a residential house in Dowamanda district early this morning,” Zazai said, adding that four Taliban-linked Haqqani terrorists were also killed. The deaths triggered protests which blocked the main highway to Kabul nearby. Police have launched an investigation into the incident. A spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said Afghan-led forces had gone in search of the insurgents when they came under attack by the terrorists. “Responding to the insurgent attack, the security forces returned fire and called in an airstrike. The subsequent assault killed several insurgents and, also, unintentionally killed a number of associated family members,” he said. Eight Afghan policemen were meanwhile killed on Thursday when their vehicle struck a mine in the Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan, according to police. Police also said that six Afghan policemen and a civilian were killed in another landmine blast in the restive southern province of Uruzgan late on Wednesday. afp
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
KHOST: Up to 13 civilians, mostly women and children were killed in a NATO airstrike on Thursday in the eastern Afghan province of Khost according to provincial police chief Mohamad Zazai. “Unfortunately eight women, four children, and one man were killed in a NATO airstrike on a residential house in Dowamanda district early this morning,” Zazai said, adding that four Taliban-linked Haqqani terrorists were also killed. The deaths triggered protests which blocked the main highway to Kabul nearby. Police have launched an investigation into the incident. A spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said Afghan-led forces had gone in search of the insurgents when they came under attack by the terrorists. “Responding to the insurgent attack, the security forces returned fire and called in an airstrike. The subsequent assault killed several insurgents and, also, unintentionally killed a number of associated family members,” he said. Eight Afghan policemen were meanwhile killed on Thursday when their vehicle struck a mine in the Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan, according to police. Police also said that six Afghan policemen and a civilian were killed in another landmine blast in the restive southern province of Uruzgan late on Wednesday. afp
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