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Afghan raid kills 3, including 2 children
A man and two children were killed during a raid by foreign and Afghan forces in Kabul early Monday, a police official and witnesses said.
- Agencies
- Published: 12:55 September 1, 2008
Kabul: A man and two children were killed during a raid by foreign and Afghan forces in Kabul early Monday, a police official and witnesses said.
The raid in the eastern outskirts of the Afghan capital was conducted by US troops backed by Afghan intelligence agents, said police officer Qubaidullah, who like many
Afghans goes by one name. He said the raid killed a man and two of his children and wounded his wife.
The US-led coalition and Nato-led force said they had no information about Monday's raid and could not confirm their troops participated.
Any civilian deaths are likely to further strain relations between the local people and the US and other foreign forces in Afghanistan, who have been accused by Afghan
officials of killing up to 90 civilians during an Aug. 22 operation in the country's west. The US denies the accusation, saying its troops and Afghan commandos killed
25 militants and five civilians.
Angry men gathered at the victims' house in the Utkheil area east of Kabul, where the three bodies were displayed inside a mud-walled compound. The man's wife was wounded in the operation, said Yahya Khan, a cousin.
Separately, Nato said it is anticipating a Taliban claim of further civilian casualties in the south.
In a statement late Sunday, NATO said it had received information from "a reliable source" that insurgents planned to falsely claim international military forces killed up to 70 civilians in Sangin district in southern Helmand province.
The military alliance also said its forces had helped more than 20 wounded civilians who approached two of its bases in Helmand province.
Nato said the civilians were wounded in two separate incidents involving insurgents.
"Insurgents ransacked three compounds and killed three women and an unspecified number of children," in Helmand's Sarevan Qaleh village, Nato said in a statement, quoting one of those wounded. "He then reported that the insurgents had shot him in both kneecaps before fleeing," it said.
The claims could not be independently verified, and have not been reported by Afghan authorities. Nato said it condemns the "use of the plight of innocent civilians for propaganda gain by insurgents."
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