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U.S.-led air raid kills 11
in Afghanistan: doctor
Reuters
Thursday January 24, 2008
Nine police and two civilians were killed in an
air strike by U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, a provincial doctor
said on Thursday, but the coalition said Taliban fighters had
been killed.
The raid, which sparked protests, happened in a village outside
Ghazni town to the southwest of Kabul on Wednesday night, Dr.
Ismail Ibrahimzai, the head of the local public health department
said.
"Nine police, including an officer, two civilians, one of
them a woman, were killed in the raid," he told Reuters.
Five police were wounded, he said, adding they were in a vehicle
patrolling the area when it was hit in the air strike.
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The U.S.-led coalition confirmed the attack but said several
Taliban insurgents were killed in the raid involving small-arms
and aerial-delivered conventional munitions.
Coalition troops arrested nine suspected insurgents and destroyed
a cache of explosives, it said in a statement.
Civilian casualties fuel resentment of foreign forces in Afghanistan
and the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai has
repeatedly urged U.S. and NATO troops to do everything they can
do to minimize civilian deaths.
Some 200 villagers marched toward Ghazni town to protest against
the latest strike, witnesses said. They chanted slogans against
Karzai's government and U.S. troops who form the bulk of the coalition
force in Afghanistan.
More than 500 civilians were killed last year in air strike or
during operations by foreign troops, aid agencies and Afghan officials
say.
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