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| Some 25 likely killed in Afghanistan airstrike: official | |
| 2010-10-26 | |
[Dawn] About 25 people may have been killed in a Nato
The coalition was continuing to look into the operation, the officials said. The head of Helmand's provincial council, Fazal Bari, said local officials had told him that 25 people had been killed but that the casualty figures could rise because many bodies were still buried in the rubble. He said the dead were inside a mosque in Baghran district but Nato said it had no reports of a mosque being struck. Baghran is the northernmost district in Helmand, about 100 miles north of the quiet provincial capital of Lashkar Gah. In an unrelated incident, an jihad boy attack in eastern Afghanistan killed a Nato service member, the coalition said in a statement on Monday, bringing to 50 the number of coalition soldiers killed this month. The statement did not provide further details on Sunday's death. The Afghan insurgency has traditionally been fiercest in the country's south and east, along the border with Pakistain. Most of the insurgency's top commanders are believed to be hiding in the mountainous Pakistain border area. Nato and Afghan troops have been trying to wrest back control of the southern provinces from the Taliban since July, but attacks and roadside kabooms are still daily occurrences. Nato has also been trying to kill or capture Taliban leaders in Residents said the push has resulted in patches of security in the south, but the insurgency has stepped up attacks in other parts of the country, including the north, which has traditionally been more stable. In northern Afghanistan Monday, a suicide kaboomer blew up his explosives-laden car in Pul-i-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province, said Mahmood Akmal, a front man for the provincial governor. The attacker died, but no one else was injured in the blast, which appeared to be targeting a coalition convoy, he said. On Saturday, four suicide kaboomers used a car bomb, explosives vests and guns to attack a UN compound in the western province of Herat. The four attackers were the only fatalities. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Whatever it was, it was Alan's will. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2010-10-26 20:44 |
| #2 the dead were inside a mosque in Baghran district See! Just innocent civilians going to religious services & they got blown up by the evil Americans. Or maybe it wasn't an airstrike at all but an accident in a munitions plant. Hard to tell. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-10-26 19:01 |
| #1 Maybe the "smoking crater" image needs to be recast as a rating symbol. This could be a two-crater event. We can hope for lots of 5-crater events in the near future... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-10-26 07:52 |