NATO air strike kills 17 people in Afghanistan

21/04/2011| IslamWeb

Local officials in the Dangam District of Afghanistan’s restive Kunar Province have confirmed that at least three civilians were killed in an overnight air strike by NATO warplanes.

The Provincial Governor said that the strike killed 17 people in total, and that two civilian women and a child were slain in the strike. NATO confirmed the attack but said it was still investigating exactly who was killed.

Kunar has been the center of a number of high profile incidents of attacks against civilians in recent weeks, with a bombing last week killing a number of tribal leaders. NATO has also killed civilians in several air strikes recently.

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US soldiers return to camp from a patrol in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.

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