Monday, 13 October 2014

Afghan officials: NATO airstrike killed civilians including nine-year-old on Monday

The deputy governor of Paktia province, Abdul Wali Sahi, said villagers brought seven bodies from the Udkey area of Gardez city to the provincial capital, saying they were all civilians killed in an air strike.
Sahi said an investigation has been launched, but that initial reports suggested the villagers were gathering firewood on a mountainside for the upcoming winter on Sunday when they were fired on.
"They had shovels in their hands, and coalition forces maybe thought they were insurgents," Sahi said.
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