30 Afghan civilians killed in Kunduz NATO airstrike
KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN: At slightest 30 Afghan civilians, including women and children, were killed in a NATO airstrike Thursday in a flighty northern range of Kunduz, officials said.
The strike occurred early Thursday after a firefight killed dual US soldiers and 3 Afghan special army during an anti-Taliban operation in Kunduz.
It was not immediately transparent if a dual incidents were related, though a killings prominence flourishing distrust after a Taliban final month overran Kunduz city for a second time in a year.
“Afghan army and bloc infantry conducted a corner operation opposite a Taliban insurgents. In a barrage 30 Afghan civilians were martyred and 25 others were wounded,” provincial orator Mahmood Danish told AFP.
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Police orator Mahmoodullah Akbari gave a same fee to AFP, adding that a passed enclosed infants aged as immature as 3 months and other children.
“They were defunct when their residence came underneath conflict by bloc troops,” Akbari said.
In a brief matter on Twitter, NATO conceded it was behind a airstrike.
“Airstrikes were conducted in #Kunduz to urge accessible army underneath fire. All municipal misadventure claims will be investigated,” it said.
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Emotionally-charged protests erupted in Kunduz after a airstrike, with dozens of kin of those killed in a airstrike rallying outward a governor’s office, carrying a bodies of victims.
“I am heartbroken. we have mislaid 7 members of my family. we wish to know, because these trusting children were killed? Were they Taliban?” pronounced Taza Gul, a 55-year-old labourer.
“No, they were trusting children.”
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