Dozens of civilians die in Afghanistan
Up to 40 civilians were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday as a twin suicide bombing laid waste to a crowded makeshift bazaar and a NATO air strike hit a home.
Wednesday, 06.06.2012.
15:21
Up to 40 civilians were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday as a twin suicide bombing laid waste to a crowded makeshift bazaar and a NATO air strike hit a home. 23 people were killed and 50 others were wounded in the suicide attack in a car park crammed with vehicles supplying the largest NATO base in southern Afghanistan, police said. Dozens of civilians die in Afghanistan A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck first and as a crowd gathered to help the victims a second bomber walked into their midst and set off explosives strapped to his body, Kandahar provincial police chief General Abdul Raziq told AFP. "All casualties are civilians, not a single military person," he said. Hours earlier, at least 15 civilians, including women and children, were killed in a NATO air strike on a home in Logar province south of Kabul, police said. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said "multiple insurgents" were killed in the air strike, which was ordered after troops came under fire, AFP has reported. However, Deputy Provincial Police Chief Rais Khan Sadeq Abdulrahimzai told AFP: "18 civilians, including women and children, are dead," adding that seven Taliban insurgents were also killed. ISAF said in a statement a "precision" air strike was called in after coalition forces were fired on during an operation to detain a leader of the hard-line Islamist Taliban insurgents. "As a result of the operation, multiple insurgents were killed and the Afghan and coalition security force seized several weapons and a quantity of explosives," ISAF said. An ISAF spokesman told AFP later, after allegations of civilian deaths surfaced, that they were "assessing and gathering facts to try to determine what happened". Civilian casualties caused by NATO have roiled relations between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the U.S., which leads NATO forces in the fight against the Taliban. Tanjug
Dozens of civilians die in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck first and as a crowd gathered to help the victims a second bomber walked into their midst and set off explosives strapped to his body, Kandahar provincial police chief General Abdul Raziq told AFP."All casualties are civilians, not a single military person," he said.
Hours earlier, at least 15 civilians, including women and children, were killed in a NATO air strike on a home in Logar province south of Kabul, police said.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said "multiple insurgents" were killed in the air strike, which was ordered after troops came under fire, AFP has reported.
However, Deputy Provincial Police Chief Rais Khan Sadeq Abdulrahimzai told AFP: "18 civilians, including women and children, are dead," adding that seven Taliban insurgents were also killed.
ISAF said in a statement a "precision" air strike was called in after coalition forces were fired on during an operation to detain a leader of the hard-line Islamist Taliban insurgents.
"As a result of the operation, multiple insurgents were killed and the Afghan and coalition security force seized several weapons and a quantity of explosives," ISAF said.
An ISAF spokesman told AFP later, after allegations of civilian deaths surfaced, that they were "assessing and gathering facts to try to determine what happened".
Civilian casualties caused by NATO have roiled relations between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the U.S., which leads NATO forces in the fight against the Taliban.
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