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GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Four children were killed by coalition forces after a militant attack on a security patrol in southern Ghazni province on Wednesday, officials saids.
Helicopter-borne foreign soldiers killed the children and wounded two men and a woman in an orchard in the Andar town, said the district chief, Sher Khan Yousafzai.
He told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban insurgents, who attacked a patrol of Afghan and foreign soldiers in the Mamoot area, manage to flee the scene.
But the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said an air weapons team engaged insurgents who fired on Afghan and coalition forces conducting a patrol
in the Taliban-infested district.
"The combined patrol came under effective small-arms fire from approximately eight insurgents in the Andar district … The combined force called for a medical evacuation for wounded insurgents and reported approximately four insurgents had been killed."
A statement from the multinational force said: "ISAF is aware of allegations in the media of civilian casualties associated with this operation. ISAF is receiving reports from this operation and will provide updates as they become available."
The district police chief, Col. Sher Afzal, confirmed the incident, saying the international troops suffered no casualties in the militant assault. The bodies of victims were still lying in the orchard.
The NATO-led soldiers did not let civilians collect the bodies, community chief, complained Dr. Ghani Bahadari, a member of the community council.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said the NATO soldiers had killed seven civilians. He claimed the fighters had killed three foreign troops and wounded a fourth.
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Helicopter-borne foreign soldiers killed the children and wounded two men and a woman in an orchard in the Andar town, said the district chief, Sher Khan Yousafzai.
He told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban insurgents, who attacked a patrol of Afghan and foreign soldiers in the Mamoot area, manage to flee the scene.
But the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said an air weapons team engaged insurgents who fired on Afghan and coalition forces conducting a patrol
in the Taliban-infested district.
"The combined patrol came under effective small-arms fire from approximately eight insurgents in the Andar district … The combined force called for a medical evacuation for wounded insurgents and reported approximately four insurgents had been killed."
A statement from the multinational force said: "ISAF is aware of allegations in the media of civilian casualties associated with this operation. ISAF is receiving reports from this operation and will provide updates as they become available."
The district police chief, Col. Sher Afzal, confirmed the incident, saying the international troops suffered no casualties in the militant assault. The bodies of victims were still lying in the orchard.
The NATO-led soldiers did not let civilians collect the bodies, community chief, complained Dr. Ghani Bahadari, a member of the community council.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said the NATO soldiers had killed seven civilians. He claimed the fighters had killed three foreign troops and wounded a fourth.
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